here in paris went into the theater. you could tell and again, this goes back to the way that they split their command and control, the paritions national security command and control and when you have the head of that trying to talk to the president, getting information, i ve got dead bodies, i ve got wounded, i ve got people here, where do i move my medical service personnel, where do i send the police, where do i send the special forces and then you have the situation, two guys inside, killing these guys one by one. they should have basically as soon as they had enough men execute. there was not time to stand there, watch the building, see what was going on. they should have assaulted. they already knew what was going on inside. what can they do now? they can tie their intelligence efforts and tie the medical personnel to the leadership, to the civilian personnel that has to make the decisions to the police force and rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. that s what i would be do iing
view this situation and you had five policemen injured but again also you had five detentions of terror suspects, three in that building and two in an adjoining building. there have been major developments here and you got to believe the authorities here think they have surrounded something very important and they re ready to wait it out so a, no one gets hurt on the outside and b, maybe they can catch them alive unless that person is wearing a suicide vest, too. back to you. i wanted to ask you a little bit more about the area surrounding where all this is happening. ped reaps, people living in the area, they ve been told to stay inside. is that correct? how long will that continue obviously until the standoff ends at least? you were in an area earlier until a short time ago that a cup well a young baby and a stroller walked by you. that was remarkable, but the mood is very much different now. again, we ve closed in about a block right to the edge of the cordon, and now we re not
is believed was the mastermind of the attacks here in paris friday night. the man we thought was holed up in raqqah, an isis capital of their open territory, a long ways way from here, if he is actually here this could be interesting. we were able to move closer, about oh i d say about a block if you were following up about 15 minutes ago you saw us standing with a lot of soldiers, the soldiers have left from this area, but as you can see, pierre, why don t you pan the situation, it s a very i would say nervous but careful police keeping us at bay. they said we could not go any further than this so we are absolutely at the edge of this operation. let s recap the numbers because they have shifted in the past half hour or so. it all started about 4:30 in the morning, paris time, right now we re looking at 10:35 in the