French President Francois Hollande has called for a
“large coalition” against Islamic State to “annihilate” the terror group.
In a televised address today Francois Hollande said
military operations in the Middle East would be intensified just days after it
launched attacks on ISIS, also known as Daesh, destroying a number of targets.
He announced plans to form a
coalition with USA and Russia “to carry out strikes on Dash because Daesh is
guilty”.
The president added: “What’s at
stake is annihilating an army that threatens the whole world and not just some
countries.”
He told the nation “we are at war” and promised there
would be increases recruitment for the both the judiciary and police forces.
Speaking just five days after 129
people were killed in terror attacks in Paris, Hollande said he wanted “more
policemen, better equipped and better armed”.
It comes as the Charles-de-Gaulle
aircraft carrier left the French port of Toulon and headed towards the eastern
Mediterranean to boost operations in Syria against ISIS, which claimed
responsibility for the Paris attacks.
France hit back at ISIS on Saturday night with a 20
bombing raids on the terror group’s de-facto capital in Syria, Raqqa.
Hollande was speaking just hours after a police
siege in the Paris suburb of St-Denis, which left two terrorists
dead and saw seven people arrested.
French authorities said they were acting in response to
intelligence Abdelhamid
Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks, was in an apartment
there.
It is yet to be revealed whether
he has been apprehended but the siege ended just before midday. /express.co.uk editing by newsflashw.
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