A 27 Year Old Belgian Identified As suspected mastermind behind terror attacks in Paris.
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Since the attacks, police have found three Kalashnikov assault rifles and ammunition inside a vehicle that was abandoned in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil.
More details have emerged about the IS attack which was the worst terrorist outrage in Europe for more than a decade, leaving at least 129 dead and 350 wounded.
Security forces in Belgium are carrying out an unprecedented door-to-door search for Islamic State group suspects.
The suspect, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam said to be one of three brothers linked to the attacks, is also wanted by Belgium, which has issued an global arrest warrant for him.
Bilal Hadfi, 20, and 31-year-old Brahim Abdeslam, the brother of Sala Abdeslam, were French nationals believed to be among the bombers, an official told the AP.
She added that Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, “did not mean to kill anyone” when he blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe near the Stade de France injuring 15 people.
He was one of three men who sprayed concert-goers with gunfire on Friday evening, killing at least 89.
Authorities on Monday identified the ringleader of the attacks that killed 129 people and injured hundreds more as “Belgium’s most notorious jihadi”, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
The officials also said that a sleeper cell in France then met with the attackers after their training and helped them to execute the plan.
The other suspects include Sami Amimour, just identified Monday morning, who allegedly attacked the concert hall. Molenbeek is known for being “a focal point of Islamic radicalism and recruitment of foreign fighters to go to Iraq and Syria”.
Scotland Yard said armed police will be deployed at the football match between England and France at Wembley on Tuesday night.
French authorities believe the attacks were planned overseas by ISIL, but have not yet confirmed the identities of others involved.
The news comes after more than 150 police raids were carried out in France overnight, the country’s Prime Minister has said.
French media also reported that a rocket launcher was seized during raids in Lyon, in which five arrests were said to have been made.
During a meeting on Sunday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G-20 summit, Obama described the attacks in Paris as an “attack on the civilized world”.
Now is the time, said one imam, for French Muslims to take a clear stand against any form of terrorism. We are thinking about the families of the victims.
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The rapidly moving investigation is revealing a picture of a network of terrorists, many of them born in Europe, who were trained in Syria or elsewhere in the Middle East – a scenario that has anxious authorities across Europe for years.
