Latest Paris: Paris attacks: EU ministers to discuss tightening border

EU interior ministers discuss tightening of the external borders of the Schengen area in response to the attacks of Paris.

France wants EU citizens to be subject to the same strict border controls as travelers outside the EU, and wants easier sharing of air passenger data.Belgian leader traveled to the alleged attacks last week undetected from Syria to France has emerged.Meanwhile, the head of German intelligence warned of a "global terrorist war."He said Hans-Georg Massine, head of the internal intelligence agency told the BBC that the so-called Islamic State (IS) presented its enemy Europe, and European countries had to "endure something like that Paris can happen at any time."Quasi-simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers and gunmen in bars and restaurants, and a golf hall for concerts and sports on Friday, killing 129 people and left hundreds injured. He said because it was behind the attacks.He said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve speaking on Thursday it was "urgent that Europe wake up, organize themselves and defend itself against the terrorist threat."He said France had received no warning from the other European countries that Abaaoud Abdul Hamid - known face of the most prominent and the international "wanted" lists - had arrived on the continent.France said it had received intelligence information from non-European country after nearly three days of attacks that have passed Abaaoud Greece on his return from Syria.One of the attackers blew himself up outside the Stade de France, it has also been tracked by his fingerprints to Greece, where it recorded as immigrants.French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said some of those involved in the attacks benefited from the immigration crisis in Europe - which has seen thousands of asylum seekers arrive in the continent - to "slip into" France unnoticed one.Abaaoud's movements2013: He said that he visited Syria for the first time, joining the group Islamic State before retreating to his home country, BelgiumJanuary 20, 2014: passes through the Cologne Bonn airport in Germany, en route to the Turkish city of Istanbul. Back to Syria, where it becomes one of the faces of propagandaJanuary 15, 2015: It is said his mobile phone traced to Greece from calls made to an Islamic cell in Verviers, BelgiumNovember 16, 2015: After three days of attacks Paris, the French foreign intelligence service alerts that appeared in Europe, after Greece passed; the police received a tip that the French territoryNovember 18, 2015: killed in a police raid on the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, five days after the frequency tends attacks in Paris that killed 129 peopleView Abdul Hamid Abaaoud's ProfileHow the raid unfolded Saint-DenisOn Thursday, prosecutors confirmed that the French Abaaoud was among those who were killed in a police raid the previous day.His body was found infected by several bullets in the wreckage of an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, along with Belle Aitboulahcen - male cousin Abaaoud - who died after the bombing of an explosive belt.A draft resolution for the meeting of the European Union on Friday said the ministers agree on the implementation of the "systematic and coordinated the necessary checks on the external borders, including individuals have the right to freedom of movement."This means EU citizens, along with citizens from outside the EU, and will be checking their passports in exchange for known terrorists or suspected data and those involved in organized crime base.Ministers also consider cracking down on the movement of firearms within the EU, and the collection of passenger data for those who are traveling in the internal flights, as well as block funding for terrorists.The key to all of this that the cooperation and the exchange of intelligence and information between EU countries, notes the BBC's Alex Forsyth in Brussels