France Carries Out Raids; Alleged Paris Attacks Mastermind ID’d

Police then checked Abdeslam’s ID and subsequently let him go, officials told the Associated Press.

Since the attacks, police have found three Kalashnikov assault rifles and ammunition inside a auto that was abandoned in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil.

Abaaoud is believed to be linked to thwarted attacks on a high-speed train bound for the French capital and a church in the Paris area earlier this year.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the attacks were “prepared overseas and involved a team situated on Belgian territory and who may have benefited from… complicity in France”.

According to The Wall Street Journal, French prosecutors said police stopped Abdeslam, with two other men, on their way to Brussels but a background check did not show he’d rented the vehicle found outside the Bataclan night club, where most of the Paris victims on Friday were killed.

Salah rented the Volkswagen Polo which was parked outside the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people were murdered during an Eagles of Death Metal concert.

Two have been charged with “participation in terrorist activity” and “preparation of a terrorist attack” for their alleged involvement in the attacks carried out on Friday, while the other five, including Salah Abdeslam’s brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, have been released.

One of those alive is suspected to be the “mastermind” behind the terror attacks, known as Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

He violated his judicial supervision in 2013, prompting judges to issue an global arrest warrant.

Other: Suicide bomber involved in Stade de France attack.

Paris attacker Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgium-based Frenchman who blew himself up outside a bar on Boulevard Voltaire, was from Molenbeek.

A few of the suspects were Belgian residents or citizens, and investigators believe the a few of the planning for the attack may have happened inside the country.

A Syrian passport for suicide bomber Ahmad al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib, was found after he died outside the national football stadium.

Belgian prosecutors were not immediately available for comment. “We are making use of the legal framework of the state of emergency to question people who are part of the radical jihadist movement…and all those who advocate hate of the republic”, Valls said.

Three people in Amimour’s family have been in custody since early on Monday.

The Turkish authorities said they identified Mostefai as a possible “terror suspect” in October 2014.

Mohammed Abdeslam was reportedly arrested around 5pm on Saturday in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean district of Brussels, suspected of being connected to the attacks.

Jerome Lorenzi, a survivor of the attack at the Bataclan music hall Friday, gave his account in a CNN interview released Tuesday.

Belgium’s Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said there would be “more action” in Molenbeek – and urged intelligence services across the rest of Europe “to exchange more and more intelligence”.