Aachen is close to Germany’s border with Belgium and the Netherlands.
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News site Spiegel Online reported that the German police alert was sparked by a supermarket employee who reported spotting a suspect who resembled Abdeslam.
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“We had received a few tip-offs indicating that one of the individuals sought in connection with the events in Paris was in our jurisdiction”, a police official said at the time of the arrests.
At about 1 p.m., a German police spokesman said they were working on a tip that one of the fugitives in the Paris attack could be staying near Aachen. Including properties in the suburbs of Paris.
Abdeslam’s brother, Brahim, was among the five suicide bombers who killed himself and an innocent ivilian when he blew himself up. “According to the investigation they are not the people we are looking for”.
– France conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State-held Syrian town of Raqqa for the second night in a row.
“In order to safeguard the security of French people, sometimes a certain number of our liberties have to be curtailed”, the prime minister warned.
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.
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said European Union partners could help “either by taking part in France’s operations in Syria or Iraq, or by easing the load or providing support for France in other operations”.
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He argued that “France can no longer do everything”.
