What We Know About a few of the Alleged Attackers Behind Paris Plot

The widening investigation is also focusing on Belgium, where Salah was born and lived with one of his brothers and where officials are said to have made 10 arrests as they hunt for possible accomplices and attempt to determine the scope of the conspiracy behind the assault.

Among those walking free was Mohamed Abdeslam, brother of Brahim that participated in the attack. “The fact that his bomb belt exploded without killing anyone else says a lot”.

Brussels authorities have arrested his brother, Mohamed, and are searching for a third brother, Salah, identified by the Mail as “Europe’s most wanted man”.

After being detained by the police over the weekend, Mr Abdeslam speaks to reporters outside of his family home in Molenbeek, .

Abaaoud was previously linked to smaller terror plots in Europe, and after an attack that killed two policemen in January, he told an ISIS magazine he was able to escape capture and slip into Syria.

French authorities said Sunday night’s air strikes destroyed a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned. The relatives said that they have noticed that he had, at least in part, been radicalized by ISIS.

The Abdeslam family added: ‘We even saw him two days before the attacks. The family members also said they did not think he had been radicalized to a degree that would prompt him to commit such an atrocity.

Three French police officials and a top French security official confirmed that officers let Abdeslam go after checking his ID. “There were no signs that they has plans to do anything violent” despite admitting he had spent “a long time” in Syria.

Ibrahim, who seriously injured an innocent bystander when he blew himself up, rented a Seat Leon used in the attacks. Three of the suicide bombers were French citizens, while two others were French men living in Brussels. The area is reportedly known as a “den of terrorists”.

Prosecutors said he was from Drancy in northeast Paris and had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an worldwide arrest warrant.

Salah Abdeslam, 26, is wanted by French authorities in connection with the November 13, 2015, terror attacks in Paris.