*French Footballer, Lassana Diarra, confirms sister killed
Image copyrightPAImage captionBriton Nick Alexander was killed in the Bataclan concert hall
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The French government has set up a hotline for information: 0800 40 60 05 (within France). There is also a website where people missing after the attacks can be registered. The interior ministry warns that the site is frequently overloaded and may be unavailable at times.
The ministry also posted a list of useful websites and social media accounts (in French)
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Briton confirmed dead.
Nick Alexander was killed at the Bataclan concert hall, the Foreign Office and his family have confirmed. He is believed to have been selling merchandise at the Eagles of Death Metal concert.
In a statement, his family said: “Nick was not just our brother, son and uncle, he was everyone’s best friend – generous, funny and fiercely loyal.
“Nick died doing the job he loved and we take great comfort in knowing how much he was cherished by his friends around the world.”
#RechercheParis
The hashtags #rechercheParis (searching Paris) and #rechercheBataclan are being used widely to circulate the names and photos of the missing. There is also a Twitter account: @recherche_Paris.
A Facebook page, Je Suis Charlie, set up after the deadly Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in January, is posting pictures and asking for information about people who have not been seen since Friday evening.
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Image copyrightPAImage captionValentin Ribet, a French lawyer who had studied in London, was one of the first victims confirmed dead
French victims
Names of the dead are being shared on social media and by regional news organisations. They include:
- Djamila Houd, 41, originally from Dreux, west of Paris – “All the mothers of families share Djamila’s mother’s pain,” the local newspaper said (in French)
- Thomas Ayad, 34, from Amiens – he worked for Mercury Records, a division of Universal Music France, and was at the Bataclan with two colleagues. The amateur hockey club he played for said on its Facebook page it would hold a minute’s silence for him on Sunday.
- Universal Music France president Pascal Negre named the other two employees killed as Marie and Manu on Twitter, but did not provide their surnames.
- A man nicknamed “Dado”, 44, from Ceyrat in the central Auvergne region. The man, who worked for the tax office and was unmarried, was at the Bataclan,France 3 reported
- French footballer Lassana Diarra revealed on Twitter that he had lost his cousin, Asta Diakite, in one of the shootings. He said she was like a “big sister” to him. Diarra was playing in the football match against Germany at the Stade de France on Friday night, the scene of one of the attacks.
- Cedric Mauduit, a local council official from Calvados in Normandy – he was at the Bataclan with five friends
- Mathieu Hoche, a journalist for the France 24 TV news channel, died at the Bataclan. He was young and had a six-year-old son, a colleague tweeted
- Quentin Boulanger, 29, originally from Rheims but had lived in Paris for several years – he was at the Bataclan
- Guillaume B Decherf, a journalist with Les Inrocks magazine, was at the Bataclan. The father of two had written about the Eagles of Death metal’s latest album, Les Inrocks said
- Lola Salines was at the Bataclan. Her father confirmed her death on Twitter, after using the platform to try and find her.
- Elodie Breuil, 23, was at the Bataclan concert with friends, Time magazine reports.
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionLassana Diarra (left) lost his cousin in the attacks
The London School of Economics (LSE) said one of its graduates had been killed. Valentin Ribet, who graduated from the master’s in law programme in 2014, had been working in Paris.
His profile on LinkedIn said he was an associate in criminal law and white-collar crime, at the law firm Hogan Lovells.
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Other foreign nationals
Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old US student from El Monte, California was killed in the attacks, her university said in a statement. She was studying at the Strate College of Design in Paris. The president of California State University at Long Beach, Jane Close Conoley, said the university’s “thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this sad time”.
The US embassy in France has provided a number for those in the US and Canada to call if they are still missing relatives: +1-888-407-4747.
Belgium said two of its citizens were among the dead but but gave no details.
There is a phone number for Belgians to call if they are worried about their relatives: +32 477 40 32 12.
One Swedish national was killed and others injured, Sweden’s foreign minister told Swedish television (in Swedish).
Two Romanians were killed, BFM TV reported in a victim list, citing the country’s foreign ministry.
Mexico’s government says two of its citizens were among the dead, the Associated Press reports. The foreign ministry has not said where the two women were killed in Friday night’s attacks across the French capital. It also hasn’t released their identities but says one had dual Mexican-US citizenship and the other held Mexican-Spanish citizenship.
A Spanish national, Alberto Gonzalez Garrido, 29, was killed in the Bataclan,Spanish newspapers reported, quoting the government.
Two Tunisian woman, sisters from near Bizerte, aged 34 and 35 were also killed, BFM TV said. They were celebrating a female friend’s birthday.
Two Chileans died in the attacks, Chile’s foreign ministry said, without giving details about where they died. One of the dead was Paris resident Luis Felipe Zschoche Valle, the other was Patricia San Martin, described in the statement as a “Chilean exile” and the niece of Chile’s ambassador to Mexico, Ricardo Nunez. Her daughter, French citizen Elsa Veronique Delplace San Martin, was also killed, the ministry said.
A 63-year-old Portuguese man who had emigrated and lived in Paris wasconfirmed dead by the Portuguese government. He was killed in one of the explosions near the Stade de France.
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