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for anyone to carry out an act of terrorism. they were empemphasizing, do it with weapons that are free, zero value attacks. just grab your car and drive into an individual. or grab a knife or, in this case, a hammer, and attack someone. but they specifically say attack, as a soldier of god, you must attack a policeman or a government worker. >> it was just -- it was just confirmed that it was a hammer used. >> right. >> i'd love for you to detail for us, it isot that they didn't choose to use a gun, because if they used a gun, an automatic weapon, it could have far more significant damage, but gun laws are stricter in europe. >> we saw this with the bataclan attacks. somehow, the isis team, which was extremely well organized, had managed to buy guns on the european black market. fully automatic weapons.
hand grenades. but for the average person in france, it's like england. the most you're going to get is a hunting shotgun or maybe a, you know, bolt action hunting rifle. it's not like belgium, which had this nexus of illegal gun traveling. it is -- >> is that -- >> just grab a hammer or kitchen knife. >> does that lead you to believe this attacker, you know, similar to what we saw in london, could have been inspired, not necessarily part of an organized group, as you mentioned, at the bataclan, where they had a series of automatic guns. >> is about to be eliminated from the face of the world in iraq and syria. they're getting individuals to
statement. now, whether that person is a jihadist or some lunatic or both, we really can't say at this point. there have been several incidents where police and soldiers, because there are soldiers in the streets here, have been attacked. >> in terms of high alert and historically speaking, put into perspective. we mentioned the bataclan nightclub, "charlie hebdo." remember the nice attack, the truck that ran over innocent bystanders. chris, we want you to stay with us. we also have abigail miller, an american, a tourist visiting paris and witness elive on the scene. what do you know? >> i'm sorry. can you repeat that question? >> tell us, what do you know? >> so i was across the street, had just left notre dame. it sounded like two gunshots went off and then saw crowds fleeing. the police responded right away. they were running into the area.
piece of intelligence coming. one a significant one coming from u.s. intelligence officials which says quite simply that they have heard chatter coming from four isis members inside syria about an attack in geneva. the whereabouts of those four are unknown. at least a couple of them speak french. there is also a concern because a van belonging to an associate of one of the paris terror attackers from last month, that was driven into switzerland. the van the police have now found that but they don't know where this associate of those paris attackers is right now. that is a concern. also we now know the identity of the third attacker in paris. at the bataclan nightclub where the band was playing. his identity has now led the swiss police to be concerned. because the man who recruited him, who's now in jail in france, a swiss associate of his was with isis in syria.
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woman, hasna aitboulahcen, that they had previously said was a suicide bomber, did not, in fact, blow herself up. careful examination of the remains of the bodies they found, has led them to that conclusion. but she was in that apartment with the ring leader of the attacks that began here almost exactly one week ago. in fact, at this time a week ago, the terrible events at the bataclan nightclub were still going on. a short time ago here in the place de la republique, they turned the music up at about 9:25, almost exactly when the attacks began. paris defiantly showing that they will not be beaten by these attacks. now i talked earlier today to the commander of the raid at that apartment block in saint-denis, a captain who called himself ugo, not his real name, and he described the seven-hour assault that took place on wednesday. he said they went in believing that there were four terrorists
just overnight here in the paris area and the seat, the spanish-built car the terrorists used on friday night that was found on saturday morning, they found two ak-47 automatic weapons, these terrorists used automatic weapons in the bataclan nightclub where 89 people were killed, and this is not a country where weapons are available. forget readily available. they're not available to anyone. so people are saying well, wait, just overnight, they got 31 weapons and we have seen these terrorists as well as when the "charlie hebdo" attacks you referred to in january, they also used automatic weapons and they're saying wait, where are these weapons? are we awash in weapons but only these terrorists have them? this is something that is really a discussion that we are hearing here in the streets of paris of where are they and how many are there. >> the interesting thing from having a chance to speak to
restaurants, theaters, soccer stadiums. you live in paris to be outside and with other people. that, of course, from a terrorist point of view is danger. >> what would you like to see done? i mean, they have 1500 police now across france, most of them concentrated right here in paris. what would make you feel comfortable as you walk the streets here in your neighborhood? >> i don't want to live in a militarized camp, and new york didn't become that. it became that for a while then became new york again. i want paris to be this great city where you can walk into a cafe, sit down and you feel happy and don't wonder about what other people there are doing and whether anyone is up to something. in paris, to live in paris, live in new york, you have to have trust in your millions of fellow citizens and we've managed that well. i was listening to conversations by the bataclan between orthodox jews and muslims chatting, laughing, joking, comparing religions and that is most of the time what paris is about. we get along pretty well here.
coverage of the terror attack that has triggered a nation in mourning and also a state of emergency in france. something we haven't seen here in more than 50 years. here's what we know at this hour. french prosecutors say seven terrorists were working in three coordinated teams. they carried out a series of shootings and suicide bombings last night at six different locations across this city. 129 people were killed, 352 were wounded. the worst carnage at the bataclan concert hall, that is where 89 people were brutally murdered, some of them right at point-blank range. survivors describing a slow-motion massacre. the killers just shooting, reloading, and shooting, and reloading. all of the attackers then either killed themselves by detonating their suicide vests, or were shot and killed by police. there have been multiple arrests made in belgium, that is where authorities today carried out raids in the suburbs of brussels. a source telling us here at cnn