In response to the attacks, France has stepped up its airstrikes against the terrorist group at its homebase in Syria, and French military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said that military forces have destroyed 35 Islamic State targets in the region.
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He and his brother Ibrahim, who was killed in the siege, rented three cars registered to Belgium, which were all used during the attack.
Previously they had said only one attacker had been registered in Greece, an entry point for numerous hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in Europe.
All five of the seven jihadi who were shot dead or blew themselves up in the Paris carnage and whose bodies have been identified – including four Frenchmen – recently spent time in Syria, officials have said.
France’s national police chief says his whereabouts are still unclear. “There were no goodbyes”, said Mohamed Abdeslam.
“A physical surveillance took place which allowed us to establish that the young woman and the jihadist went into the building in Rue Corbillon in St. Denis on Tuesday early in the evening”, the source said, declining to be identified because he is not authorized to speak officially.
He was seen driving a vehicle that dropped his brother and another attacker off to massacre dozens of people at restaurants and bars in the French capital on Friday, and may have been among the gunmen himself.
“A friend asked me to put up two of his friends for a few days”, Bendaoud told AFP before being led away by police.
Still, it has left Brussels on edge, in particular in Molenbeek, a predominantly Muslim working class area that has come under worldwide scrutiny. They claim the Paris attacks were planned in Raqqa, Syria – the Islamic State’s de-facto capital – before the attackers returned to Europe. Speaking at emergency talks between European Union interior and justice ministers organized after the Paris attacks, she expressed frustration at the years-long roadblock in introducing a system to collect airline passenger information.
His body was found riddled with bullets and shrapnel in the apartment.
Prosecutors have also confirmed that a woman who blew herself up during the raid was Abaaoud’s 26-year old cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen.
Aitboulachen, meanwhile, reportedly died after detonating a suicide bomb when police entered the suspects’ apartment early Wednesday.
The apartment block in the northern Paris district of Saint-Denis, near the Stade de France national stadium, was severely damaged as elite RAID police rained 5000 rounds of ammunition on it and lobbed in grenades after a tipoff that Abaaoud was there.
Salah was stopped during a routine traffic control check on his way back to Belgium by police who did not yet know he was a wanted man. French investigators quickly identified Belgian-born Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, as the architect of the attacks in Paris, but believed he had coordinated the assaults from the battlefields of Syria.
Since the Belgian connection was discovered, the government has vowed to tighten security and crack down on suspected extremists.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced $427 million in anti-terror measures Thursday following the attacks.
The resolution calls on member states to take all necessary measures in compliance with global law to “redouble and coordinate their efforts”.
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“We must be implacable in our determination, we must speed up our action, otherwise Europe will lose its way”, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
