Christian, a resident of Saint Denis’ rue de la Republique, told French channel BFMTV that there was noise of gunfire.
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A woman blew herself up and a suspected jihadist was killed during a huge police assault in Paris targeting the suspected mastermind of last week’s attacks in the capital. “And we can’t believe for a moment that either of my brothers is linked to these attacks”, the municipal employee said hours after his release.
Abdeslam has been identified as the renter of a vehicle used in the attack when he and two others were stopped by police near the Belgian border.
“I would tell him to surrender”. Its statement mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, and called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity”. Iraqi intelligence officials said the attacks on Paris had been planned in Raqqa, according to the AP.
“It points to a sort of organization”, CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said, “an attempt to try to synchronize what was going down”.
But cracking into their communication won’t be easy. “The floor of the flat collapsed and the state of the bodies and what is left of them will demand a few more investigation”.
Sky’s Robert Nisbet, at the scene, said the offensive lasted three hours and police carried out what were believed to be two, small controlled explosions.
Now one of them is a wanted fugitive. Blew himself up at Comptoir Voltaire cafe in Paris.
Prosecutors say three people in Amimour’s family entourage have been in custody since early Monday. Two further suspects were charged with involvement with terrorism. “These are not regular people”, he said. “And even if you saw them every day, their behavior was quite normal”. A group of eight terrorists took hostages, detonated suicide vests, and shot people in attacks across Paris on Friday night. They let him go because he apparently hadn’t yet been linked to the terrorist operation. “Those are rumors, it’s not confirmed at all and we won’t comment on this”, Brussels prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt told Reuters.
Al-Mohammad is the name on a Syrian passport found with the remains of one of the attackers, though the man’s identity has not yet been verified.
“We do not know where he is, there is no info”, Mohamed continued.
Ismail Omar Mostefai, 29 (born November 21, 1985), Frenchman of Algerian descent involved in Bataclan concert hall attack, lived for a time in Chartres area, southwest of Paris.
Belgium’s Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said there would be “more action” in Molenbeek – and urged intelligence services across the rest of Europe “to exchange more and more intelligence”, Sky News reported.
Authorities are also searching for two more extremists suspected of taking part in Friday’s attacks.
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President Francois Hollande tracked the operation from his office at the Elysee Palace, with Prime Minister Manuel Valls and the ministers of the interior, defense and justice as the focus swung back to the streets of Paris from the global stage.
