French cops officers arrested (taken in to custody) two men & a lady Tues.in reference to last month’s terrorist massacre in Paris & the assaults within the city in January, judiciary officers stated.
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According to French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, more than 2,700 police searches have been conducted since the Paris attacks, and 360 people have been put under house arrest.
One of the two men arrested on Tuesday in Villiers-sur-Marne to the east of Paris was deemed a “peripheral” suspect in the investigation into the November 13th attacks, judiciary sources said.
Two of the suspects were determined to be connected to January’s Hyper Cacher kosher grocery attack while one was found to be connected to the November 13 Paris terror attacks.
French authorities discovered Monday that an account given by a Paris-area preschool teacher saying he had been attacked by the terror organization known as the Islamic State group was a hoax.
But three of the nine attackers have yet to be identified, including two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France stadium, who appear to have used fake passports to sneak into Europe posing as refugees.
Investigators have been looking for Abdeslam since shortly after the attacks, which killed 130 people, and sources close to the investigation have speculated he may have fled to Syria.
“(The teacher) is being interviewed with a view to establishing the reasons for this invented story”, said an official from the Paris prosecutor’s office. In fact, Hermant had already been in jail for arms trafficking since January and was only determined to be connected to the attacks on Tuesday.
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These sightings support French newspaper reports on Monday, quoting French and Moroccan security officials, who said this was highly likely, reports the BBC’s Gavin Lee in Leros.
