Terror suspect stopped by Dutch police
Since Friday, 1,500 military personnel have joined the 10,000 military present in France since the January attacks.
“We will not change our course or cancel our plans, including our plans to come together in Paris later this month for the United Nations climate conference”, he said. “If we can get that done, that opens up the aperture for a whole bunch of things”. French police raided more than 150 locations overnight as authorities released the names of two more potential suicide bombers involved in the…
Police have seized a Kalashnikov assault rifle, three automatic pistols and a bulletproof vest from a suspected arms dealer with jihadist sympathies, and a rocket launcher and other military-grade gear from his parents’ home.
The prosecutors office declined comment on the report.
Salah Abdeslam is being hunted by anti-terror squads who have stormed the homes of seven suspects in Belgium.
An global manhunt is underway for Salah Abdeslam, who has already managed to slip through the fingers of authorities at least once. Belgium has issued an global warrant for his arrest.
Police chief Volker Kluwe told German public broadcaster NDR that the alleged threat involved the “detonation of explosives in the stadium”, though no explosives had been found Tuesday evening.
But police have yet to announce the capture of anyone suspected of direct involvement in Friday’s attacks.
His brother Ibrahim is believed to have blown himself up during the siege at the Bataclan and a third unnamed sibling was arrested in the Belgian raids. He said the plane downing, along with recent attacks in Lebanon and Turkey made it clear that more pressure must be brought to bear on the Islamic extremists.
The French Police Union called on the EU to take over security in Molenbeek, Brussels, because they said the Belgian government has ceded to ISIS. His whereabouts since that interview in February had remained unknown. The video was among evidence authorities used in concluding that at least one other attacker was at large, the French officials indicated.
PARIS (AP) – The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris.
In Washington, Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Monday that a few US officials believed that Abaaoud was still in Syria.
One person is still understood to be holed up in the apartment in t he suburb of Saint-Denis in the north of the city, close to the Stade de France national stadium, where three terrorists struck during Friday night’s massacre in which 129 people were killed.
Two of the gunmen behind the bloodbath at the Bataclan, where 89 people were killed, have been identified as 29-year-old Paris native Omar Ismail Mostefai and 28-year-old Samy Amimour.
One is Bilal Hadfi, who is reported to have been a 20-year-old French citizen living in Belgium. In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament that the Paris attacks had strengthened the case for intervening against the Islamic State in Syria, a move that Parliament rejected in 2013.
Hadfi appears to have traveled to Syria last spring, van Vlierden said, citing analysis of his social media postings and other communications.
(AP Photo/Francois Mori). People react in front of the Paris morgue, in Paris, France, Monday, November 16, 2015. The official did not specify who those three attackers were.