France: The Republic will 'destroy the terrorists' - interior minister

The French Minister of Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, said that the French Republic will destroy "the terrorists" rather than the terrorists destroying the Republic, during a press conference in Paris on Monday. Commenting on the last 48 hours Cazeneuve said that he had called "for 104 investigations against individuals who had come to the particular attention of our services. Last night, all over the national territory, the police and the gendarmes, coordinated by our central information point, undertook 168 administrative raids in flats of several suspects for different reasons," adding that "twenty-three individuals have been arrested and taken into custody, 31 weapons have been found: 19 hand guns, eight longer weapons and four weapons of war. We have undertaken 18 drugs cases. Computers, hard drives, IT equipment and mobile telephones have also been found and will be examined." At least 132 people were killed and more than 349 left injured, 96 critically, after a series of coordinated attacks were carried out at six different locations across Paris on Friday evening.