The other two set off their explosive belts at 9:30pm and 9:53pm.
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France is marking three days of mourning for the victims, who include more than 350 wounded.
In a sign that at least one gunman might have escaped, a source close to the investigation said a Seat auto believed to have been used by the attackers had been found in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil with three Kalashnikov rifles inside.
Paris: French National Police published a photo of a wanted man who is “likely to be involved” in Paris attacks, and are appealing for witnesses.
Mr. Salah’s group was alleged to be one of three cells that launched the rapid succession of attacks Friday night.
French officials say that six attackers died by blowing themselves up and a seventh died in a shootout with the police.
“We had a few indication something was happening, but we did not have enough information to take action to disrupt it”, said one of the officials. One of them was reportedly a Frenchman who had rented a black Polo, bearing Belgian license plates, that was found near the Bataclan concert hall.
Mourners gather at the Place de la Republique on Sunday evening following Friday’s deadly attacks.
The Wall Street Journal reported that at least one of the attackers had a ticket to the game and attempted to enter the stadium.
Stunned by the carnage, thousands of people thronged to makeshift memorials at four of the sites where the attacks took place, laying flowers and lighting candles to remember the dead.
Former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, leaves the Elysee Palace after a meeting with France’s President, Francois Hollande, right, in Paris, Sunday, November 15, 2015.
Manuel Valls spoke on French radio RTL Monday morning, reaffirming President Francois Hollande’s declaration that “we are at war” against terrorism following Friday’s attacks in Paris.
By Sunday night, as French military forces pounded the Islamic State’s self-styled capital in Raqqa, Syria, officials in Belgium had detained seven people in connection with the attacks.
Coalition air strikes are underway in Raqqa in Syria, as France joins forces with the United States to ramp up attacks against ISIS.
The bomber was among the terrorists who killed more than 120 people in gun and bomb attacks across Paris.
Police identified the man suspected of renting the vehicle that delivered attackers to the Bataclan concert hall as Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels. He was pulled over on the French-Belgian border on Saturday, but later released by authorities. The other man, born in 1984, detonated himself outside a bistro on the Boulevard Voltaire, the southernmost site of the attacks.
France has been bombing Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria for months as part of a U.S.-led operation. On Saturday, French police arrested seven of Moustefai’s family members and associates in Chartres, including his brother, who apparently surrendered himself at a police station in Creteil.
None of these details have been corroborated by officials of France or other Western intelligence agencies.
Seven attackers, including two who had lived in Belgium, died during assaults on a series of targets, officials said.
Three suicide bombs targeted spots in and around the Stade de France stadium, in the city’s north end, where France and Germany were playing a friendly soccer match.
A Syrian passport said to belong to one of the attackers, Ahmed Almuhamed.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon, speaking to The Associated Press by phone, said suspects arrested in Molenbeek had been stopped previously in Cambrai, France, “in a regular roadside check” but that police had had no suspicion about them at the time and they were let go quickly. Authorities said Mr. Mostefai-who had eight convictions between 2004 and 2010 for petty crimes and had been on an extremist watch list since 2010-was identified from a severed finger found at the Bataclan.
Police detained his father, a brother and other relatives Saturday night, and they were still being questioned Sunday, the judicial official said.
Since 2012, jihadists heading to Syria have been the biggest concern for Europe’s counter-terror services, with France and Belgium among the countries most concerned by the phenomenon.
While millions of French people marched in January to protest the attacks and show national unity, there were debates in the country about whether Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons mocking Islam went too far.
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Julien Pearce is a Europe 1 reporter who hid in a small room at the outset of the attack, and sprinted for the exit as the attackers reloaded.
