England's watchdog for children urged the French authorities on Saturday to speed up processing the cases of lone child asylum seekers who may be eligible to join family in Britain.

Anne Longfield, the Children's Commissioner for England, wrote to the French government concerning an estimated 150 unaccompanied minors in a refugee camp in Calais, on the northeast French coast across the Channel from Britain.

The arrest of Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini in raids linked to the deadly Brussels airport and metro bombings highlighted Saturday the links between the Islamic State jihadists behind Belgium and France's worst terror outrages.

Abrini's arrest Friday, along with four other suspects, marks an important step in the investigations into the November 13 onslaught which claimed 130 lives in Paris and the March 22 attacks which left 32 dead in Brussels.

French President Francois Hollande is scheduled to pay a visit to Lebanon at the end of next week where he will hold talks with various senior officials, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.

He is set to meet with Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, and the representatives of various political blocs.

"You won't have my hatred" -- the defiant words of a Paris attacks widower that won sympathy around the world -- are the title of his poignant new book, already translated into 18 languages.

"You stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you won't have my hatred," Antoine Leiris posted on Facebook after identifying the body of his 35-year-old wife Helene, one of the 90 concertgoers killed by jihadists at the Bataclan venue on November 13.

The former leader of France's far-right National Front (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, was fined 30,000 euros ($34,000) Wednesday for repeating his view that the Nazi gas chambers were a "detail" of history.

A Paris court found 87-year-old Le Pen guilty of the charge of denying crimes against humanity.

A man was shot dead Monday in Marseille, bringing to 11 the number of people killed in gun violence since the start of the year in the crime-ridden southern French port, rescue workers said.

A man in his 50s was killed by gunshots to the chest after several shots were fired in the car park of a social housing building.

President Francois Hollande promised Monday that a massive leak of documents exposing the offshore dealings of wealthy individuals would lead to legal proceedings in France.

"All the information revealed will lead to investigations brought by the tax authorities and to legal proceedings," Hollande said.

Three men were killed in a suspected gang shooting in southern France on Saturday, sources said, taking to eight the number who have died in gang violence in the city this year.

Three others were also injured in the gunfight, which broke out around 10:30 pm (2030 GMT) in Marseilles.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam wants to cooperate with French authorities once he is extradited from Belgium, his lawyer said Thursday, as Belgian police carried out a raid linked to a foiled French terror plot.

Soldiers and police could be seen taking part in the operation near a busy motorway in Courtrai in northwestern Belgium, the latest in a series of raids since the Paris and Brussels terror attacks exposed a tangled web of cross-border jihadist cells.

Clashes broke out on the streets of France on Thursday during fresh protests over labor reforms, just a day after beleaguered President Francois Hollande was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over constitutional changes.

A nationwide strike shut the Eiffel Tower, disrupted train services and saw dozens of schools closed or barricaded by students.