People pay their respects at the Carillon cafe in Paris, Sunday, November 15, 2015.
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A grey Volkswagen Polo vehicle registered in Belgium was found near the Bataclan theater on Boulevard Voltaire in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
“Meanwhile, the French interior minister says police raided 168 locations last night across the country and 104 people have been placed under house arrest in the past 48 hours”.
Reports are emerging from Paris suggesting that the prime suspect, who survived the Paris attacks and remains on the loose, was questioned by French police after the attacks and released.
Abdeslam is one of three brothers believed to be involved; One who crossed with him into Belgium was later arrested, and another blew himself up inside the Bataclan theater after taking the audience hostage and firing on them repeatedly.
Abdeslam is one of three brothers suspected of involvement in the Paris attacks. He is one of the world’s most wanted war criminals.
Investigators in France and elsewhere continue to make arrests of people who may be linked to the Friday night assaults that killed more than 120 people in gun and bomb attacks across Paris.
Belgian-born Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been identified as the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, a French official has revealed.
These details stoked fears of homegrown terrorism in France, which has exported more jihadis than any other in Europe, and seen many return from the fight.
Mostefai, 29, from Chartres, southwest of Paris, is the only attacker to have formally been named by police in France.
Abdeslam was reportedly stopped and questioned by police at the French-Belgian border before he was allowed through.
Belgium’s Premier Charles Michel said the Belgian authorities would crack down on Molenbeek, which has a reputation as being a haven for jihadists.
Update 6.30pm:The death toll of the Paris attacks has risen to 132 after three more people died in hospital.
He was one of six children in the family and had travelled to Algeria with his family and young daughter, the brother said.
He said the USA stands with Turkey and Europe in reducing the flow of migrants.
He warned that France needed “to prepare ourselves for further attacks”. Cobra meetings are held to discuss urgent security matters and include senior figures from the British government and heads of intelligence and security agencies.
A few Parisians and tourists defied the high security, walking past heavily-armed soldiers in body armor to take pictures beneath the Eiffel Tower.
The jihadists were heard raging at the French president and his decision in September to begin air strikes on Islamic State in Syria.
A Molenbeek connection keeps coming up in cases of Islamist attacks in Europe going back at least to the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, where one of those jailed for planning them was a Moroccan from the borough. Olivier Bas was among several hundred who gathered late Saturday at the site of the Bataclan concert hall massacre.
Those revelations come as new details about the attackers emerge.
“There was no exit, so we were just in another trap, less exposed, but still a trap”, he said.
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“In such a case it’s very hard to get feedback from the community”, he said.
