Global Desk: A huge manhunt is under way for surviving members and accomplices of the Islamist group that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday night, said BBC.
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Six terror plots have been foiled in France since the spring, and 23 people have been arrested since Friday’s attacks, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters Monday, Bloomberg reported.
The prosecutors confirmed that a major police raid in Brussels on Monday aimed at arresting Salah Abdeslam had ended without anyone being detained.
It’s possible that suspects who were directly involved in the attacks remain at large, a French counterterrorism source close to the investigation told CNN.
Brussels police say they have made a total of seven arrests in connection with the Paris attacks.
Paris attacker Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgium-based Frenchman who blew himself up outside a bar on Boulevard Voltaire, was from Molenbeek. An unnamed official told the Associated Press that Abaaoud also was linked to the attempted attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in August that was stopped by passengers.
Authorities have said little about the fate of the third team, which drove a rented Seat compact that carried out a rampage of drive-by shootings on bars and eateries in eastern Paris.
A Syrian passport for Ahmad al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib, was found next to one of the suicide bombers after he died outside the national football stadium.
There was no official comment from the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office about Abaaoud’s reported role in the Paris attacks, but Belgian police over the weekend announced the arrest of three suspects in Molenbeek, his old neighbourhood, and were carrying out numerous searches there Monday.
Salah Abdeslam is suspected of being involved in the attacks.
There were also fresh revelations from Germany, with reports that an investigation has been launched into claims that an Algerian man warned fellow migrants at a refugee shelter of an imminent attack in Paris.
Belgian police later asked the media not to broadcast live from the scene “for everyone’s safety”.
An arrest warrant described the 26-year-old him as “dangerous” and potentially linked to the attacks.
A man weeps for a loved one at the Place de la Republique in France as a minute’s silence is held on Monday across the world. Hadfi, who was killed in the attacks, was 19 or 20, the sources said.
Details have started to emerge about the people believed to have carried out the coordinated Paris attacks, which have heightened fears about ISIS’ ability to strike at the heart of Western nations.
Police have named Belgium-born French national Salah Abdeslam, 26, as a key suspect.
An Egyptian passport found near the Stade de France is thought to have been that of a victim, not an attacker. According to the prosecutor’s office, the fingerprints of the attacker matched those of a man who travelled through Greece in October, using the same identification.
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“France is at war”, he said in his address in front of both houses of Parliament in Versailles, going on to specify that said war is with jihadist terrorism.
