One of Abdeslam’s brothers, Ibrahim, was one of the suicide bombers during Friday night’s attacks.
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And he may not be the only suspect tied to the attacks who’s on the run.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacres and, in response, France has carried out airstrikes on targets in the militant organization’s stronghold in Raqqa, Syria.
He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2009 for recruiting jihadists, after which he left for Syria.
Abdeslam said his parents were “in shock” and “don’t really know what happened” but the he and his family were “very moved by what had happened”.
Mr Steinmeier said it “was the right strategy” because they are holding ground and making “slight territorial gains”.
Eventually, he made his way to Paris. The passport, which a few officials have suggested is forged, carries the name of Ahmad al Mohammad, a 25-year-old man from Idlib, Syria. They picked him up in Barbes, about a mile from the Bataclan concert hall, at 5am and drove him back to Molenbeek.
Authorities told the AP that the second fugitive had not been identified. Amimour was placed under judicial supervision but violated the terms of that supervision in the fall of 2013, prompting the authorities to put out an global arrest warrant.
Three of his relatives are in custody, it said.
During the wave of attacks in Paris, which killed at least 129 people, three suicide bombers blew themselves outside the Paris stadium where France and Germany were playing a friendly. There is no record of Mostefai leaving Turkey, the official said.
A third brother, Brahim Abdeslam, died when he detonated his suicide vest on Friday. “You can’t imagine the guy wanted to kill so many people and what he wanted to do”.
Several eyewitnesses have reported seeing three men inside a black Seat Leon used by the terrorists during gun attacks on bars and restaurants.
“This is just raw terror to set up a caliphate”, Kerry said before separate meetings with Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. One of them, Ibrahim, was deported from Turkey back to Belgium after attempting to go to Syria, CNN reported. We even saw him two days before the attacks.
That’s in addition to another known accomplice – Salah Abdeslam, 26, who remains the subject of a global dragnet.
The 35-year-old is a veteran of radical Islamist networks in Toulouse and was close to Mohamed Merah who shot dead seven people, including three children, at a Jewish school in the French city in 2012. These are not regular people. “You can not have the slightest doubt that they have been prepared, that they must not leave any trace which would cause suspicion that they might do such things”.
Reuters reported that another acquaintance of the Abdeslam brothers, 23-year-old Amir, who works installing shop tills, said a friend had called him on Friday night asking him to drive the 180 miles to Paris to pick up Salah Abdeslam.
Dutch media reports said his name appears in police files alongside that of leading Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud in relation to criminal cases in 2010 and 2011. Now, his whereabouts are unknown. The French newspaper Le Monde reports that Ibrahim Abdeslam, Salah’s older brother, was also one of suicide bombers.
Meanwhile, police sources told Agence France-Presse that video confirmed the existence of a ninth Paris attacker.
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French officials are seeking three suspects directly involved in the terror attacks, including one shown at a cafe on a surveillance video. Belgian authorities say two men detained over the weekend in connection with the attacks are now under arrest for “attempted terrorism and participation in the activities of a terrorist group”. His other brother, Mohammed was arrested in Belgium and later released without charge. “He must not be afraid to surrender, to explain”. It has been updated in light of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
