French President Francois Hollande will hold a meeting Wednessday to discuss proposals to extend the state of emergency declared after the worst attacks in French history for three months.
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French officials say an analysis of the attacks indicate one person directly involved is still unaccounted for, and has not been identified.
One of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks reportedly had links to a Belgian Islamic State militant believed to be the mastermind of a jihadist cell dismantled in January.
The fugitive, who is in his late 20s, was identified by French authorities on Monday as the presumed mastermind of the attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and injured hundreds.
“It’s necessary to establish direct contact with the French and work with them as allies”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as France prepared to send an aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean.
Meanwhile Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib, is said to have detonated a bomb at the Stade de France stadium.
The official told The AP Monday that Turkish authorities identified Omar Ismail Mostefai as a possible “terror suspect” in October 2014.
Amimour, one of the attackers blowing himself up at the Bataclan concert hall, was born in a north-eastern suburb of Paris and was known to French authorities before the attacks.
Julien Pearce, a journalist at Europe 1 radio who escaped by crawling onto the Bataclan stage, said he got a good look at one attacker who appeared “very young”.
He violated his judicial supervision in 2013, prompting judges to issue an global arrest warrant.
A municipal closure order posted on the front door said Belgian police believed the bar in the impoverished, largely-immigrant Molenbeek area of Brussels was being used by clients for taking “hallucinogenic substances”.
A French official told The Associated Press Monday they suspect the Paris terror attacks were orchestrated by a Belgian citizen, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
There were also fresh revelations from Germany, with reports that an investigation has been launched into claims that an Algerian man warned fellow migrants at a refugee shelter of an imminent attack in Paris.
It came as Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve revealed that 168 locations across France were raided overnight, with 104 people placed under house arrest in the past 48 hours.
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The France Info broadcaster reported that only one of the searches was directly linked to the Paris attacks. His lawyer Nathalie Gallant said that, unlike his two brothers, Mohammed Abdeslam “didn’t make the same life choice” and had not been “tempted into jihadism”.
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“A series of Belgium+Conducting+Massive+Manhunt+for+Paris+Attack+Suspects” large-scale raids have been carried out across France as authorities are seeking suspects and accomplices.
