Salah Abdeslam’s brother, Brahim, was among the suicide bombers in Paris.
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All three were allowed to continue their journey after the routine traffic check.
Paris police said 16 people had been arrested in relation to the deadly attacks, and police have carried out 104 raids since a state of emergency was declared on Saturday.
“Investigations are now ongoing regarding where the suspect spent time in Austria and the goal of his stay”, it said.
Two were arrested in Belgium and charged with terror-related offenses, officials there say, while one man remains on the loose.
Abaaoud is thought to be from the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, which has been linked to several terrorist attacks. “But what we didn’t know is apparently he was back, as he blew himself up in Paris”.
New legislation – expected to propose quicker deportation for suspect foreigners and the possibility to strip double passport holders convicted of terrorism of their French nationality – is going to be presented to parliament on Thursday, Valls said.
Two of those three suspects are dead and one remains at large.
An worldwide arrest warrant has been issued for Abdeslam, who is reported to have rented the auto that was found outside the Bataclan concert hall, where three other attackers massacred 89 people.
“We received a serious indication that a bomb attack was planned inside the stadium tonight”, Hanover police chief Volker Kluwe told ARD.
The scale and coordination of the attacks have prompted questions over how security services failed to prevent them.
Abaaoud has boasted in videos about planning attacks in Europe, and was in July sentenced to 20 years in absentia in Belgium over a thwarted plot to murder police officers.
Hollande’s call follows a heavy raid earlier on Wednesday, when the military and police moved into the centre of the suburb of St Denis.
Islamic State is losing territory in the Middle East and the Western-backed coalition is making inroads against the group, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
President Francois Hollande says France will step up the battle against Islamic State in Syria.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks in the French capital on Friday, killing at least 129 people, stating it was in retaliation for air raids in Iraq and Syria.
France’s prime minister conceded Tuesday that authorities still don’t know how many people were involved in the attacks.
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As police stepped up the hunt for the fugitives, French and Russian jets pounded IS targets in the group’s Syrian stronghold of Raqa for a third consecutive day.
