A grisly video purporting to show the nine jihadists involved in the Paris terrorist attacks has been published by the "Islamic State." It contains statements by nine men and images of several hostages being beheaded.
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The French government declined to comment late Sunday after the video was uploaded to the web channel of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS). The UK also declined to comment on footage showing its Prime Minister David Cameron.
The footage showed attackers, identified as four Belgians, three French citizens and two Iraqis, wearing camouflage clothing at a desert location, apparently filmed before the November 13 attacks in Paris.
Authorities are still searching for Salah AbdeslamImage: Police Federale Belgien
Speaking in French and in Arabic, the jihadists said their "message" was addressed to all countries taking part in the US-led coalition that has run airstrikes against IS in Syria and Iraq since September 2014.
A narrator's voice in the video said: "These are the last messages of the nine lions of the caliphate who were mobilized from their lairs to make a whole country, France, get down on its knees."
A picture of British Prime Minister David Cameron was accompanied by the words in English: "Whoever stands in the ranks of kufr [unbelievers] will be a target of our swords."
The video contains footage of the three-pronged Paris attacks as well as security operations by French special forces during the massacre.
Several of the nine are shown beheading hostages, a tactic often used by IS.
Fugitives remain at large
On November 13, nine attackers split into three groups and attacked a number of cafes, a rock concert at the Bataclan concert hall and the area around France's national stadium during a France-Germany soccer match, killing 130 people.
Authorities have identified seven of the jihadists killed during the attacks. Two remain unidentified because they carried documents that were assumed to be forgeries of Syrian passports.
The French capital is a place of longing for many travelers with 16 million people visiting every year. Parisians now want people to continue coming to their city, despite the recent terror attacks.
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City of art
There are over 200 museums in Paris. The Musée du Louvre, one of the world's most important museums, opened in 1793. There are over 35,000 exhibits in the building, covering everything from antiquity to modernity. Among them is the Mona Lisa, the world famous work of art by Leonardo da Vinci.
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City of love
In the north of Paris on the 130-meter (426-foot) hill of Montmartre, somewhat hidden on the Square Jéhan-Rictus is the "Le mur des je t’aime" or "The I love you wall." Over an area of 40 square meters artists wrote the phrase "I love you" on 612 tiles in over 300 languages.
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City of fashion
Coco Chanel is regarded as someone who revolutionized ladies' fashions because she fired the corset. Christian Dior designed the "New Look" and Yves Saint Laurent invented the trouser suit for women. Today the fashion tsar Karl Lagerfeld holds court in Paris. For German actress Romy Schneider, Paris was a revelation. She said "In Paris I learned to live and love, to move and above all to dress."
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City of philosophers
Thinking, debating and reinventing the world - the Café de Flore in the artists' quarter of Saint-Germain-des-Prés has always represented the free-thinking spirit of the metropolis on the Seine. In the 1930s, the Bohème would meet here to debate matters late into the night. The Café de Flore is known in history as one of the places Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre often frequented.
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City of music
Some 350,000 techno music fans danced through the streets of Paris in September. A love of music defines the city: from electronic beats to rock and classical music all the way to chansons. "Paris is the only place where people can truly live the way they want to," conductor Sergiu Celibidache said of his chosen home.
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City of gourmets
The French love good food and company, and there is no better place than Paris to try on this way of life. It doesn't even have to be a Michelin-starred restaurant. The heart of original French cuisine beats in the brasseries with their tiny tables on the trottoir. Family-run restaurants tend to be a good bet when it comes to great flavors and a warm welcome.
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City on the Seine
The banks of the Seine River have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. There are 37 bridges connecting the southern banks ("rive gauche") with the northern shores ("rive droite").
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City of liberty, equality and fraternity
The nation's pride resides on the Place de la République, one of the biggest squares in Paris. Watching over it all from the central monument is Marianne, symbolizing the French Republic, and showing how it was created. In 2013, the square was made into a pedestrian zone. More recently it has become a place to gather to show solidarity, mourning and resistance to acts of terror.
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Liberties debate over emergency law
On Friday, French President Francois Hollande said he would ask parliament to extend the country's state of emergency declared after the November 13 attacks by three months.
However, France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat, will examine a request from the Human Rights League on Tuesday to end the measure.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told France 5 television late on Sunday that the state of emergency needed to be extended.
"As long as we think that there is an imminent [terrorist] threat, we need the state of emergency," he said. "I hope the state of emergency will have the shortest duration possible but at the same time that it will be in place long enough to ensure the French people are protected."
