French police on Sunday released a photograph of a suspect related to Friday’s bloodbath in Paris, which claimed the lives of 129 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. They were booked by Salah for two nights prior to the attacks.
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Seven of the attackers were killed in in suicide bombs on Friday. Salah & his brother Ibrahim Abdeslam have been both involved within the assaults, a senior European intelligence official acquainted with the case told The Washington Post.
More than 100 suspected jihadists were placed under house arrest in the wake of the raids.
French aircraft have assaulted the Syrian stronghold. The other two were later arrested, but Abeslam is at large.
Police searched the rooms on Saturday night where “six people” could have slept.
Le Figaro reported that Global Positioning System data from a Seat Leon used by the attackers traced Brahim Abdeslam to a rented apartment in Bobigny, a north-eastern suburb of Paris. Police seized the hard drive for the hotel’s reception desk computer.
The occupants left takeaway pizzas, madelaines cakes and chocolate bought at the hotel’s vending machine.
Among the objects that were found, a batch of syringes and a set of short needles and intubation or plastic tubes could be found on a table in the room.
One witness in front of the Bataclan said the attackers looked like “the living dead”, suggesting that maybe they were on drugs.
Investigators found laptops and smartphones in the property, used in the days before the attack, leading to speculation it was used by a “safe-house”. Meanwhile, the Volkswagen was found close to the Bataclan music theatre after being used by the three gunmen who died there, according to the NY Times.
It was found parked partly over a pedestrian crossing and has Belgian number-plates, an AFP journalist said.
“A black (Renault) Clio found…in the 18th district may have been used in the preparation of the attacks”, one source said.
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“The vehicle was seen on the A1 motorway as part of what may have been preparatory contacts between groups in Paris and Belgium”, the source adds. Forensic tests are underway.
