French President Francois Hollande said this morning that the deadly attacks were carried out by ISIS in an "act of war", as police revealed a Syrian passport had been found on one of the attackers close to a football stadium in the north of the city.
Some 129 people have been killed and 352 people injured, the French prosecutor confirmed in a press conference this evening.
At least one Briton died in the Paris terror attacks and Downing Street warned there would be "a number of" British casualties.
One of the gunmen at the Bataclan concert hall has been formally identified as a 30-year-old French national with Islamic links and was known to French authorities.
He has been arrested for eight minor offences in France and has been on a radicalisation watch list since 2010 - but has never been implicated in any terrorist activities.
He was born in Courcouronnes, a suburb in southern Paris.
One of the Stade de France suicide bombers has been confirmed as Syrian aged 25 but was not known to French authorities. A Syrian passport belonging to a refugee was found earlier on one of the suicide bomber's bodies.
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