The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named.
Advertisement
The second was carrying a Syrian passport in the name of Ahmad Al Mohammad, although authorities said the authenticity of the document had yet to be verified. However, he went off the radar and was subject to an global arrest warrant.
The prosecutor said fingerprints from the attacker matched those of someone who passed through Greece in October but the passport is still to be authenticated.
A third brother was apparently arrested in Belgium and questioned before being released.
Salah Abdeslam, who was born in Brussels, is described as 1m 75cm (5ft 8in) tall and has brown eyes. There are reports he may have fled to Spain. At least one of the men suspected of involvement in the attacks lived in the suburb, AP reported.
Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old man from Courcouronnes, a town 16 miles south of Paris in Essonne, has been officially identified as another assailant.
PARIS – At least 35 people were killed Friday in shootings and explosions around Paris, many of them in a popular concert hall where patrons were taken hostage, police and medical officials said. His father and brother have been arrested.
In all, three teams of attackers including seven suicide bombers attacked the national stadium, the concert hall and nearby nightspots.
The raids came as the hunt continued for members of the sleeper cell that carried out last Friday’s gun and bomb attacks that killed 129 people and as France launched its heaviest airstrikes on the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria.
And a 31-year-old identified by police as the attacker who detonated his explosive vest on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris was named as Brahim Abdeslam, the source said.
France has been on edge since deadly attacks by Islamic extremists in January on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery that left 20 dead, including the three attackers.
Advertisement
The assailants were heard speaking of both countries during the atrocities.
