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Paris attacks: France calls on EU to 'wake up' to threat

2015-11-20

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said European countries must "wake up" to terror threats, following the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead.

He spoke after it emerged that the suspected Belgian ringleader of the attacks had entered France undetected.

Belgian PM Charles Michel has defended Belgium's security services amid claims the attacks were organised there.

It comes as EU interior ministers are due to hold emergency talks.

The meeting in Brussels is expected to tighten checks at the external borders of the EU's passport-free Schengen area.

Key questions remain after attacks

On Thursday, French prosecutors confirmed that Islamic State (IS) militant AbdelhamidAbaaoud was among those killed in a police raid the previous day.

His bullet-riddled body was found in the wreckage of a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.

Investigators had identified him as the most likely organiser of last Friday's attacks, but it was initially thought he was in Syria.

At a news conference, Mr Cazeneuve said "no information" had been received from other European countries about his arrival on the continent.

But he said he had received intelligence that Abaaoud had passed through Greece on his return from Syria.

"It is urgent that Europe wakes up, organises itself and defends itself against the terrorist threat," Mr Cazeneuve told reporters.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said some of those involved in the attacks had taken advantage of the migration crisis in Europe - which has seen thousands of asylum seekers arrive on the continent - to "slip into" France unnoticed.

One of the attackers, who blew himself up outside the Stade de France, has been traced by his fingerprints to Greece where he was registered as a migrant.

A draft resolution for Friday's EU meeting says ministers will agree to implement "necessary systematic and co-ordinated checks at external borders, including on individuals enjoying the right of free movement".

Correspondents say Belgium has found itself under pressure after the attacks. French President Francois Hollande said they were "planned in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium".

A former senior French intelligence official has also been quoted in French media as saying that "the Belgians just aren't up to it".

In an address to parliament on Thursday, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said it was intelligence from his country's security services that had led to the huge raid in Saint-Denis.

"I do not accept the criticisms which were aimed at denigrating the work of our security services," he said.

Mr Michel unveiled new security measures including jailing jihadists returning from Syria and extending detention periods for terror suspects.