Authorities have released surveillance video showing another person involved in the attack on bars and restaurants.
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It was not clear if the ninth man was one of two suspected accomplices detained in Belgium or was still on the run, potentially with 26-year-old fugitive Frenchman Salah Abdeslam who took part in the attacks with his suicide-bomber brother Brahim.
Prior to the terrorist attacks in Paris, France and its allies had tried to target Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the prominent ISIS member who is believed to have planned the attack, a French source close to the investigation said.
After checking the vehicle was not booby-trapped, it was towed away by police for further examination.
Two brothers linked to the Paris attacks both rented lodgings in the French capital days prior to the carnage, a French judicial official told The Associated Press.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said police seized a Kalashnikov assault rifle, three automatic pistols and a bulletproof vest from a suspected arms dealer with jihadist sympathies, and a rocket launcher and other military-grade gear from his parents’ home.
Authorities in Belgium thought they had located Abdeslam early Monday, but a police operation in Molenbeek, a suburb of Belgium, ended without his capture, the mayor of the town said Monday.
Despite reported confirmation by the two European intelligence officials, French prosecutor François Molins said there is a few trouble confirming that the body belongs to Abaaoud.
It was raided by police in January.
Police said they were still checking to see if the document was authentic, but said the dead man’s fingerprints matched those on record in Greece.
Abaaoud, 27, is believed to be the mastermind behind the Paris attacks.
France and Russia intensified strikes against the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State Tuesday, following lethal terror attacks that hit Paris Friday and revelations by Russian officials that a homemade bomb caused the death of everyone on board a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month.
In a bold speech at the Château of Versailles a day after launching a series of retaliatory airstrikes in Raqqa, Syria, French President Francois Hollande declared in a joint session of Parliament on Monday that “France is at war”, according to The NY Times.
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A auto with three men, including Abdeslam, was stopped near the France-Belgium border early Saturday.
