Officers had Abdeslam in their grasp when they stopped the auto carrying him and two other men near the Belgian border.
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Seven people are in custody in Belgium suspected of links to the attacks and an worldwide arrest warrant has been issued for a Belgian-born Frenchman believed involved in the attacks and who is still at large.
Authorities have also identified Brahim Abdeslam, a suicide bomber who exploded himself outside a Paris restaurant.
“I have not been involved in any way with what happened on Friday the 13th in Paris”.
“Twenty bombs were dropped”, the statement said, adding that the mission had taken place Sunday evening. Meanwhile, addressing the French Parliament, President Francois Hollande said that the terrorists will never destroy the republic, because the republic will destroy them.
There was no word on casualties or the damage inflicted.
Like other Western powers, Paris has distanced itself from Russian President Vladimir Putin and joined sanctions against Moscow over its annexation of Crimea previous year and its role in destabilising eastern Ukraine.
The suspected mastermind of last week’s Paris attacks was killed in the police raid of an apartment north of the capital, French officials said on Thursday. Belgian police on Monday donned balaclavas and assault rifles as they mounted a tense hourslong standoff outside Abdeslam’s suspected hideout in the Brussels district of Molenbeek but made no arrests after storming the residence. One of the people who had hired the cars slipped through the fingers of the police.
According to figures released by the worldwide Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence in January, an estimated 440 Belgians had taken up arms for Sunni extremist groups in the Middle East, a per-capita figure about double that of France, and four times that of the UK. A few trampled over memorial candles and floral bouquets to escape what they feared was more gunmen.
The heavily-armed gunmen wearing explosives vests opened fire on crowds enjoying a Friday night at outdoor cafes and at the Bataclan concert hall, scene of the worst carnage where 89 people were killed as they watched a gig by the American group Eagles of Death Metal.
Stone said he has heard from Sky sources that France could evoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty that an attack on one member of the defence pact is an attack on them all.
French media named the two other French assailants as Bilal Hadfi and Ibrahim Abdeslam. They said the strikes had knocked out electricity in the city of about 200,000 people.
The news revived a furious a row within the European Union on how to handle the flood of refugees.
“The days of uncontrolled immigration and illegal entry can’t continue just like that. Paris changes everything”, Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
Hollande has denounced the Paris attacks as an “act of war” and vowed to hit back against IS “without mercy”. In Rome the lights of the Trevi Fountain and the Colossuem were turned off on Sunday night in a silent tribute. Part of that is down to the structure of policing, Jambon said last week.
Vall also said that French intelligence services had prevented several attacks since the summer.
French warplanes launched a ferocious retaliatory assault late Sunday on targets in Raqqa, Syria – the Islamic State’s de facto capital – after coordination with USA defense officials who helped with the targeting.
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Mr Obama, speaking after a G20 leaders’ summit in Turkey, said the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria would redouble efforts to implement the current strategy rather than moving in a new direction, even as the militants threatened to strike Washington.
