In a statement the Security Bureau said: “Residents who plan to visit France or are already there should monitor the situation, exercise caution, attend to personal safety, avoid travelling to places of large gatherings of people and pay attention to advice of the local authorities”.
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He said it was a rental vehicle and police organized several raids in the St. Jans Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels on Saturday.
A judicial source said Salah, a 26-year-old French national, had rented out one of the two cars, a Volkswagen Polo, that was found not far from the Bataclan hall.
A Greek official said that the terrorist whose Syrian passport was found at the scene crossed into the European Union through the Greek island of Leros in October.
The US officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation had just begun, stressed that the attackers likely had a substantial understanding of French history culture and Paris in particular, and that it was “highly possible” that a few had lived in the French capital.
Many global security experts have long seen Belgium as an “Achilles heel” of violent Islam across Europe. Belgian authorities have arrested seven other men in connection with the attacks.
At the time of his arrest the suspect was with two passengers from the Brussels area.
Three Chileans also were killed, as were two people from Belgium, two from Mexico, two from Spain, one from Portugal, one from the United Kingdom and many French citizens. He says “he seemed very young”.
Hollande blamed the attacks on ISIS and said they were planned from the outside – “with inside complicity”. But he insisted his centre-right coalition, in power for a year, was tackling that.
Belgium’s deputy prime minister and interior minister Jan Jambon said Saturday there was “for now no evidence of Belgium involvement” in the attacks, according to an interview on Flemish VRT television. Only in largely in French-speaking Brussels, and particularly Molenbeek, until recently a fiefdom of the French-speaking Socialist party, was there still a problem, he said.
“Belgium is a federal state and that’s always an advantage for terrorists…”
Molins said that the inquiry is still only in its early phases, adding that there are multiple lines of investigation ongoing. Although Paris was quiet and jittery, Bas meant to go out for a drink – “to show that they won’t win”.
The dead came from around the world, including one US citizen, a Swede, Briton, German, Italian, two Belgians, two Romanians and two Mexicans.
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The search for the perpetrators of the Paris attacks has led authorities across the Belgian border to an impoverished suburb of Brussels with a history of links to terror plots. Michel said it would work in close cooperation with the French inquiries.
