Paris attacks: Possible suspects at large
French police released a photo of the suspect they were looking for in connection with the attacks, naming him as 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam and describing him as a “dangerous individual”.
Belgium has issued an global arrest warrant for a man suspected of having taken part in the Paris attacks with two of his brothers, a judicial source said Sunday.
Two assailants who died in the Paris attacks were Frenchmen who had lived in Brussels, Belgian prosecutors said today.
French anti-terror police worked to identify potential accomplices to the attackers, and prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said authorities couldn’t rule out the possibility that other militants involved in the attack remained at large. The man, who was driving a different vehicle when he was caught, is a French citizen living in Belgium and was accompanied by two other people, Molins said.
French soldiers leave the Ecole Militaire on the first of three days of national mourning in Paris. He said when the three attackers stormed in “it took me few seconds to realize it was gunshots”. It was the worst of Friday’s synchronized attacks, leaving 89 fatalities and hundreds of people wounded inside.
What of the other alleged attackers?
Security has been stepped up, with military reinforcements drafted in.
At least 129 people were killed and more than 350 injured in coordinated attacks that targeted the Bataclan, restaurants and the Stade de France stadium.
An Iraqi intelligence dispatch warned that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had ordered his followers to immediately launch gun and bomb attacks and take hostages inside the countries of the coalition fighting them in Iraq and Syria.
Seven of the terrorists were killed, mostly by blowing themselves up, according to French officials. The attackers are believed to have operated in three teams.
The United States Department of Homeland Security says there is no known credible threat to America.
The scale and coordination of Friday’s wave of deadly assaults inside a major Western city – coming soon after ISIS’ claim of taking down a Russian airliner in Egypt – appear to represent a deeply disturbing increase in the extremist group’s capabilities.