Investigators haven’t said much about how they believe Abdeslam is tied to Friday’s terror attacks in the French capital.
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France woke on Monday to learn that police have carried out “preventative” raids as part of the national state of emergency.
Several Kalashnikov rifles were found in an abandoned vehicle believed to have been used by the attackers, Paris Match reported, citing police sources. A few of the suspects have been linked to the bloody civil war raging in Syria that has enabled ISIS to thrive.
French media said he was French-born and of Algerian descent.
Seven gunmen in Paris killed themselves with explosives vests and one was shot dead by the security forces.
French police are hunting a man allegedly involved in Friday night’s terrorist attacks, according to reports. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an worldwide arrest warrant.
Seven people in Brussels have been arrested over the weekend in connection with the attacks, according to the Associated Press.
It’s not clear why the local French police, known as gendarmes, didn’t take Abdeslam into custody.
He was driving in the direction of the Belgian border a few hours after the attacks when officers stopped him, the source said. Now, his whereabouts are unknown.
Two others reportedly appeared to be Belgian foreign fighters, including an 18-year-old who had fought in Syria. The Paris prosecutor’s office has identified that attacker as a 31-year-old French citizen but hasn’t disclosed his name.
“Those who organized, who perpetrated the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing and not the opposite”, the news agency quoted Juncker as saying.
Refugees now “will be considered as probable attackers”, said Abdul Selam, a 31-year-old from Syria.
The other, a black Seat Leon, was found early Sunday morning in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil.
Abdeslam is thought to be directly involved in Friday’s attacks, which killed 129 people and wounded hundreds in the worst violence in France in decades, French security officials said.
Women comfort each other in front of a memorial set-up close to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, …
Three suicide bombers also detonated their explosives outside the Stade de France stadium where France were playing Germany in a football friendly attended by Hollande, who was evacuated.
US officials say they are waiting for corroboration from DNA and fingerprint tests to help positively identify the attackers, something that will take a few time.
A Syrian passport was found near the body of another assailant.
The seventh attacker blew himself up on a bustling avenue near the concert hall, injuring one other person. He passed through the Greek island of Leros on Oct 3 and the Serbian border town of Presevo on Oct 7, officials in those countries said. “My neighbor will have been killed”, he said.
European stock markets have opened lower but the retreat is less than many analysts were predicting in the wake of the attacks in Paris.
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Extra security measures have been put in place around Britain, Mrs May said, with enhanced checks at ports and an increased police presence in cities. And AFP reported that the two men were detained after police raided their homes 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Paris.
