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Who was attacker Omar Ismail Mostefai?Read our previous live coverage here 10.38am GMTThe Guardian’s senior international correspondent Luke Harding is outside the Bataclan,where the bloodiest of Friday’s attacks took residence.
The road around the Bataclan theatre reopened this morning for the first time since Fridays massacre, as more details emerged of the police operation against the terrorists.
A screen still hid the front of the concert corridor from view, and but Parisians were able to leave flowers,and pictures of those killed, in the green square immediately opposite.
Le Monde newspaper said that at 10pm the first police officer at the scene went into the auditorium and confronted one of the terrorists. He shot at him and the terrorist’s explosive belt went off. It was unclear whether he’d blown himself up, or the policeman’s bullet had ignited the belt. 10.32am GMTWe possess some more detail as France invokes an EU treaty provision requesting mutual assistance from other EU countries.
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said EU partners could help “either by taking part in France’s operations in Syria or Iraq,or by easing the load or providing support for France in other operations.”
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Source: theguardian.com