Manhunt for Paris attackers continues

They say of the three, only Salah Abdeslam is still alive and remains the principal suspect now on the run.

A senior Turkish official says authorities flagged one of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks to their French counterparts back in 2014 but received no response.

All three were allowed to continue their journey after the routine traffic check.

Two more attackers, including a Syrian and a Frenchman, have also been identified.

Hours after the synchronized attacks that terrorized Paris, French police questioned and released the suspect who is now the focus of an international manhunt, officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Police across Europe are searching for Salah Abdeslam (26), who rented a auto used to carry gunmen to the Bataclan music venue which became the scene of a massacre.

Reports suggested that he was seen at a window of a building with his arms up in the air, before police used tear gas to neutralise him.

Salah’s brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, who was himself arrested and freed without charge in Belgium, has called on his sibling to hand himself in.

Before the Paris attacks, France and its allies had tried to target a prominent ISIS member who is believed to have planned the assault on the French capital, a French source close to the investigation said.

A police standoff Monday in the Molenbeek suburb of Brussels, Belgium, ended with one arrest but did not apprehend Abdeslam, the Belgium Federal Justice Department told a state news agency.

Samy Amimour, 28, from near Paris – suicide bomber at Bataclan.

The attacks “were prepared overseas and involved a team situated in Belgian territory and who may have benefited from… complicity in France”, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said after talks on Sunday with his Belgian counterpart, Jan Jambon. So far seven attackers are known to be dead.

At least 129 people were killed in Friday’s gun and suicide attacks in the French capital, and Belgian intelligence services have come under growing scrutiny following revelations that several of the attackers lived in Belgium.

Speaking through an interpreter, the family said: “We even saw him two days before the attacks”. Belgian prosecutors said those claims are unconfirmed.

Hollande declared that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will deploy to the region on Thursday, and asked that the state of emergency he declared on Friday be extended for three months.

The Prime Minister is meeting Vladimir Putin on the fringes of the G20 summit in Turkey as Western allies try to persuade the Russian president to co-operate in the global struggle against terror group Islamic State in the wake of attacks in Paris and Egypt.