Paris attacks: Authorities hunt for a French national

He had blamed ISIS for the attack prior to the group admitting responsibility.

The Paris attacks were “prepared, organised and planned overseas, with help from inside (France)”, French President Francois Hollande said.

Clues and evidence appeared to be piling up Sunday.

Reports from Europe this morning suggest a man wanted in connection with the terror attacks in Paris may have been arrested.

He was driving in the direction of the Belgian border when stopped by police and questioned a few hours after the attacks, the source said. No weapons or explosives were found on them. Mostefai lived in Chartres at least until 2012, said Gorges via Facebook.

“Those who organized these attacks, and those who carried them out, are exactly those who the refugees are fleeing”, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters at the G-20 summit in Turkey.

Salah allegedly rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by the group that attacked the Bataclan concert hall.

– Molins said seven terrorists were killed, one fewer than the number ISIS claimed were involved.

Prosecutors say three people in Amimour’s family entourage have been in custody since early Monday.

Mostefai’s father, sister-in-law and a brother have been arrested. Three other people were arrested there Saturday.

Raids were conducted in a Brussels suburb, Justice Ministry spokeswoman Sieghild Lacoere said.

Al Jazeera’s David Chater, reporting from Paris, said about 200 members of police tactical units surrounded an address in Toulouse and ammunition and a large amount of cash were also found at one of the locations.

At least one of the raids was connected to the Paris attacks, according to a Western intelligence source who is in contact with French and Belgian intelligence services.

French media cited local residents as saying he had been influenced by a visiting radical Imam from Belgium in 2010, the same year that the Paris prosecutor said his security file for Islamist radicalisation was created. Police believe he was linked to previous train and church attacks that were foiled. He is one of three attackers authorities have identified as French citizens. At least two roads were cordoned off by the police in an active standoff, CNN reported. Authorities said the man had a criminal record dating back to 2004 and had been tagged as an Islamic extremist, but had never spent time in jail. French prime minister Manuel Valls warned on Monday that terrorists were planning more strikes in France and elsewhere in Europe. In the French capital, a few people clapped after the minute of silence and sang the national anthem.

As authorities scrambled to find those responsible, the grieving French tried to return to the humdrum of daily life. He called the coordinated attacks on restaurants, bars, a concert hall and a sports stadium “an act of war”. Cobra meetings are held to discuss urgent security matters and include senior figures from the British government and heads of intelligence and security agencies. “Others are taking action in Syria which we both support and enable, but we’ve got to keep on making the case that we will be safer in the United Kingdom, in France, right across Europe if we destroy this death cult once and for all”. “We do not know if he dares to surrender himself or not”.

During a press conference Saturday, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins confirmed that 352 people were wounded in the bombings and 99 are critical.

Belgian authorities suspect him of also helping organise 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.

Investigators are working on the theory that there were three teams.