Paris attacks: Mohamed Abdeslam, brother of fleeing suspect, denies

They’ve also spurred pledges of support from around the globe, while skepticism of Syrian refugees is sprouting in several American states.

Also Monday, a Turkish security official told the AP that a group of Islamic State activists arrested last week in Istanbul had communicated with the Paris attackers before Friday’s massacres.

352 were wounded, and 99 are in a critical condition.

Police on Monday identified one of the suspected suicide bombers at the Bataclan music hall as Samy Amimour, 28, of France, the AP reported. “The difference in this case is the number of terrorists because if we compare with the incident in August this year and the attack on a train, in that case we had only one terrorist”, said global Relations Professor Carlos Esceverria, at the National University of Distance Education. Another brother, Mohammed, was detained by Belgian police but released without charge Monday.

“I have not been involved in any way with what happened on Friday the 13th in Paris. We did not think for a moment that one of our brothers was related to these attacks”.

– NEW: UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, said the Euro 2016 tournament will “go ahead as scheduled” in France.

– NEW: French President Francois Hollande and Kerry will meet Tuesday morning in Paris, according to a schedule released by Elysee Palace. Other states, including IN, Wisconsin, Alabama, Ohio, Mississippi, North Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, MA and Arkansas, have made similar moves. “Islam does not associate itself with acts of terrorism in the slightest – something that is said very commonly by these killers, these slaughterers, these assassins.” said the head of the Paris Grand Mosque Dalil Boubakeur. He also said they know more are being planned both for here in France and elsewhere in Europe.CCTV’s Kate Parkinson reports.

However, Mohamed Abdeslam, the brother of one of the bombers and Saleh, has been released, his lawyer said. The black Seat is believed to have been used for the restaurant attacks; it was found in Montreuil, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office revealed on Sunday to CNN. Bassam Ayachi, a French citizen and Salafist cleric, founded the Centre Islamique Belge (CIB) in Molenbeek in the early 1990s – an organization that Belgian authorities say espoused hardline, pro-al Qaeda views and recruited jihadist fighters.

French border police had stopped him Saturday but unwittingly allowed Abdeslam to travel on to Belgium, unaware of an arrest warrant that had been issued in Paris that described him as extremely unsafe.

Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old from Courcouronnes, a town 16 miles south of Paris, has been officially identified as another assailant. It called the operation the largest attack by French air power since France joined the U.S.-led coalition in targeting suspected IS power bases in Syria in September. In December 2014 and in June, Turkey requested more information on Mostefai, but France did not respond, the official said. Police and other Belgian officials said they could not confirm any significant arrests at the scene. But one USA official said Sunday that the evident weaponry skill displayed by the attackers suggests that they might have received training somewhere.

– Hollande addressed a joint session of the French Parliament – only the third time a president has done so since 1848 – and said he would seek to add 5,000 positions to the country’s paramilitary police force.

Belgian authorities suspect him of also helping organize and finance a terror cell in the eastern city of Verviers that was broken up in an armed police raid on January 15, in which two of his presumed accomplices were killed. France intends to continue airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, and the arrival of aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will triple the country’s ability to carry out those strikes, Hollande said.

– The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security said there is “no credible threat to the United States”.

However, Iraqi intelligence officials told the AP that they provided other details to France, including that attackers had been trained specifically for Friday’s attack and were deployed from Raqqa. France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls says there have been 150 police raids overnight in the countr…