PARIS — President François
Hollande on Saturday blamed the Islamic State for the terrorist attacks in
Paris on Friday, as the death toll rose to 127 victims, with 300 others hospitalized,
80 of them in critical condition. He declared three days of national mourning,
and said that military troops would patrol the capital. France remained under a
nationwide state of emergency.
“It is an act of war that was
committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France,” Mr.
Hollande told the nation from the Élysée Palace, using an Arabic acronym for
the Islamic State. “It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and
planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation
will help establish.”
