The black auto was used at two of the six locations attacked on Friday a bar on rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi where five were killed, and a restaurant on rue de Charonne where 19 died. A French judicial official stated Mostefai’s father, a brother & different relations have been detained & are being questioned, in accordance to the Related Press.
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Special church services are planned at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and elsewhere.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said most of the bodies had been identified and the process should be completed in the coming hours.
Struggling to keep his country calm and united after an exceptionally violent year, President Francois Hollande met Sunday with opposition leaders – conservative rival and former President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as increasingly popular far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has used the attacks on Paris to advance her anti-immigrant agenda.
The Seat auto found in Montreuil is believed to have been used by gunmen who opened fire on people in restaurants on Friday, police said.
Another attacker may have had a Syrian passport and there is a possibility that he recently entered Paris via Greece as a refugee.
One of the attackers that massacred more than 120 people in a series of coordinated shootings and bombings in Paris lived just metres away from another jihadist, who was killed in Syria this year.
An worldwide arrest warrant has been released for a man believed to have been involved in the Paris attacks, which claimed 132 lives.
Outside the Bataclan venue where 89 people were killed in the worst of the violence, 38-year-old Herve came to pay his respects with his six-year-old son.
In 2010, Mostefai had been the subject of a police “S” file for radicalisation but the state prosecutor said he had never been implicated in any case of a terrorist organisation. “The people who do this kind of thing are born in France, they have an identity problem”, he said.
Tantalising clues about the extent of the plot have emerged from Baghdad, where senior Iraqi officials said France and other countries had been warned on Thursday of an imminent attack. And police are also investigating a third vehicle that was intercepted after crossing the border into Belgium on Saturday.
No direct link has yet been made with the holder of the passport and the attackers.
Francois Molins, the lead French prosecutor in the investigation, said the assailant “was identified thanks to his finger, and fingerprints”.
He came from the town of Courcouronnes, south of Paris. He lived in the city of Chartres 100km (60 mils) south-west of Paris until 2012, according to the local MP and deputy mayor Jean-Pierre Gorges.
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A source close to the enquiry said Mostefai regularly attended a mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, to the southwest of Paris.
