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France faces risk of chemical, biological attacks: PM

Xinhua, November 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Thursday that there may be the risk of chemical or biological attacks in the country.

Valls made the warning in his speech to the National Assembly, which is supposed to examine a bill on Thursday to extend the state of emergency to three months, as proposed by French President Francois Hollande.

"We are at war, not a war that history has tragically accustomed us," Valls said, nothing that "this is a war of which the battle front moves constantly and situates at the center of our daily life."

"This new war is a war planned and carried out by an army of criminals," he said, referring to the Islamic State, whose attacks last Friday killed at least 129 people in Paris.

A raid was carried out early Wednesday morning in northern Paris suburbs to destroy a new "terrorist team," which, according to Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins, was able to take terrorist actions.

The security forces are still hunting two main suspects, Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam. Endi