PARIS—France staged pre-dawn raids on dozens of suspected Islamists and bombed Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria as the prime minister steeled the nation Monday for more bloodshed after its deadliest ever terror attacks.
As France prepared to observe a minute’s silence in honor of the at least 129 people killed in Friday’s bloodbath, police conducted “several dozen” raids across the country, uncovering in one case “an arsenal of weapons.”
Police found a rocket launcher and weapons in the southeastern city of Lyon as the manhunt for at least one “dangerous” suspect intensified.
French prosecutors said they had identified two more attackers involved in the assault, including one previously charged in a “terrorist” case.
The 28-year-old Samy Amimour was involved in the massacre of 89 people in the Bataclan concert hall, they said.
The second was carrying a Syrian passport in the name of Ahmad Al Mohammad, although authorities said the authenticity of the document had yet to be verified.
Addressing a grieving nation, Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned that more attacks could come.
“We know that operations were being prepared and are still being prepared, not only against France but other European countries too,” he told RTL radio.
Valls said Friday’s attacks were “planned from Syria”, where French planes bombed the stronghold of the Islamic State jihadists, the jihadist group that has claimed responsibility for Friday’s carnage.
Residents of Paris tried to pick up their daily lives, despite the national state of emergency that remains in place.
Pupils went back to school and museums that had been closed over the weekend were set to re-open later in the day in the world’s most-visited city.
Metro trains were full of commuters and the streets were noticeably livelier than at the weekend.
Attention was also turning to Belgium after French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the attacks were “prepared abroad and involved a team situated in Belgian territory and who may have benefited from… complicity in France.”
French authorities released a photograph of 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, a suspect also wanted in Belgium.
Abdeslam is one of three brothers linked to the slaughter and lived in Brussels, in the rundown immigrant neighbourhood of Molenbeek, where police have made several arrests.
Seven of the gunmen and suicide bombers were killed in the attacks, but prosecutors have said they believe three teams were involved, suggesting some suspects are on the run, possibly in Belgium.