Later on Tuesday, police arrested two more people in Alsdorf, the statement said, giving no details.
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Police in France named two of the French attackers as Ismael Omar Mostefai, 29, from Chartres, southwest of Paris, and Samy Amimour, 28, from the Paris suburb of Drancy.
Anti-terror agencies previously linked him to a series of abortive shooting plots this year in Belgium and France, including a planned attack on a passenger train that was thwarted by American passengers who overpowered the lone gunman.
Mr Kerry, in Paris for talks with President Hollande, said the USA stood “shoulder to shoulder” with France.
– In a rare address to a joint session of Parliament on Monday, Hollande said he wants to extend by three months the state of emergency declared on the night of the attacks.
– Suicide bombers: Officials have identified three French men in their 20s as being among the dead attackers: Samy Amimour, Ismael Omar Mostefai and Bilal Hadfi.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday that police carried out 128 police raids overnight, as he conceded that “the majority of those who were involved in this attack were unknown to our services”.
France is set to further intensify its operations against the jihadists in Syria through the information acquired and upcoming deployment of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which will triple its capacity to strike.
– French authorities say they have taken 23 people into custody, put 104 under house arrest and seized weapons that include a rocket launcher.
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Salah Abdeslam was in Austria in September, telling police after arriving from Germany with two men that he was “on holiday”, Austrian authorities said on Tuesday.
