Alleged Ringleader of Paris Attacks Reportedly Killed In Early Morning Raid

French President Francois Hollande declared war on ISIS and has been carrying out airstrikes with help from the United States.

Three suspects were held after officials were led to the street a gunman who opened fire on a high-speed train in August once lived and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, “those in Belgium who prepared the attacks were not known to the French intelligence services” and claimed the attack on Paris was “planned from overseas”.

IS said it had carried out the attacks in response to France’s air campaign against its leadership in Syria, and pledged further bloodshed.

Though police have not yet announced the arrest of anyone directly involved in Friday’s horrifying attacks, authorities are scouring an impoverished neighborhood in Brussels for 27-year-old Belgian man Abdel-Hamid Abu Out, an extremist who French authorities believe was “instrumental” in organizing and executing the gun and bomb attacks that rocked Paris.

One of his brothers Ibrahim Abdeslam carried out the suicide attack at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe.

After French police arrested 23 suspected extremists in a nationwide crackdown on Monday and conducted 128 raids that night, the focus of the investigation had spread to Belgium and Germany.

Meanwhile, the search has intensified for a Belgian associated with the Paris attacks who may be also linked to other thwarted terror attacks in France.

Two of the total seven dead attackers were identified as Ismael Omar Mostefai, 29, and Bilal Hafdi, aged 20. When using last January two terrorists were killed.

It was 4.20 a.m. when the police started the procedure, in which they were looking for the mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and Salah Abdeslam who acted in the deadly shootings.

A government source told AFP that those returning from Syria could be placed under house arrest and said the presidency was considering amending the constitution to allow for tougher security measures.

“I was even stopped by an officer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance!” he said in the magazine.

Five of seven people detained in Belgium have been freed, while prosecutors said two others have been charged with being part of a terror group.

Saleh Abdelslam, 26, was one of three men in a getaway auto, headed for France’s border with Belgium, when police pulled them over after daybreak Saturday. Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attacks, which claimed the lives of 129 people and left hundreds injured.

A leading Belgian jihadist who is one of the most active ISIS operators in Syria is the suspected mastermind behind the Paris massacre, according to reports.