Greek authorities said on Saturday another of the attackers might have come through the same way two months earlier.
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French media said he was French-born and of Algerian descent. He lived in the city of Chartres, southwest of Paris.
Members of a forensics team work behind a police cordon at the scene of an attack near the Stade de France in suburban Paris, November 13, 2015. All you need is a fake passport, in a name which has no arrest warrant out for it.
One of the suspected terrorists in the Paris attacks entered Europe with a flood of Syrian refugees, according to reports. The Seat appeared to be involved in the carnage at Paris bars and restaurants. The authorities apparently assumed that services would not be held due to instructions for people not to congregate in one place, worshippers said, but since Sabbath-observant Jews had not watched television on Friday night and were not aware of the directives, they came to synagogue in any event. Meanwhile, three AK-47 assault rifles were found in a vehicle in suburban Paris.
Witnesses said the gunmen fired from the back of a black Seat.
Spectators at the Bataclan concert venue saw two armed men and an unarmed woman working together.
The website of the public broadcaster RTBF reported that police searches were continuing in the Molenbeek district of Brussels.
Countries that have taken in Syrian refugees include Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Nations getting requests for Syrians seeking asylum include Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Hungary and France.
Greek and Serbian authorities have confirmed the passport belonged to a man who registered as a refugee in October on the island of Leros and applied for asylum in Serbia a few days later.
Besides Greece, the passport was registered in October in Serbia and Croatia, all three countries on the corridor that crosses the Balkans and is known for lax controls and ease in obtaining transit documents. She said the fingerprints on the passport matched the bomber’s, citing an unnamed French senator who was briefed by the Interior Ministry.
A statement issued after the meeting says the Security Council “emphasizes that a fence would not be aimed at closing the border, but channeling and limiting the flow of the migrants”.
Police were said to have discovered from his sat nav that he was en route to Paris.
The senator said the Paris attacks were highly organized and planned long ago.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pressed her country’s case for a fair distribution of the refugees coming to Europe.
In the wake of the attack, the Polish government has suspended its cooperation with the European Union refugee resettlement program. “He is a criminal and not a refugee and not an asylum seeker”.
A local resident told a Reuters cameraman that police had cordoned off the area around the auto around midnight and brought in an anti-explosives vehicle in case it was boobytrapped. On Twitter, Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said “multiple searches and arrests” had been made, and that they were related to a vehicle with a Belgian number plate.
French President Francois Hollande has condemned the attacks, calling it an act of war on French values and declaring that merciless retaliation will follow.
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The U.S and its allies say Russian warplanes in Syria have mostly targeted moderate opponents of President Bashar Assad instead of their declared main target, the Islamic State group.
