Arrest warrant issued for new Paris terror attack suspect

Some reports have suggested that it could have belonged to Salah Abdeslam, 26, a key suspect in the Paris killings.

The object was found in a dustbin in the suburb of Montrouge, a police source said, adding that the device lacked a detonator. Was it intended for another attack? An global arrest warrant has been issued for Mohamed Abrini.

Belgium’s foreign minister Didier Reynders told the ABC News that the country’s primary concern right now is to find about 10 individuals whom Belgium authorities believe could launch a Paris-like attack with “heavy weapons” and “suicide bombs”.

Prosecutor Francois Molins said Abaaoud emerged from the underground at Nation station on the night of the attacks, November 13.

Belgium, and specifically a Brussels suburb that has a history of links with terrorism plots, have been a focus of the investigation.

The Belgian capital, Brussels, has remained on the highest level of alert since the weekend for fear of a “serious and imminent threat”, with shops, schools and subways shut. Investigators say he went to Belgium from France the day after the attacks in a VW Golf, despite being stopped by French police along the way in routine road checks, before his name was circulated as a suspect. They say extensive raids in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, in which 21 people were detained, targeted people suspected helping organize the attacks. His female cousin, Hasna Ait Boulahcen, also died in the raid, while an unidentified third person is believed to have detonated a suicide vest, which led to part of the apartment collapsing.

In the footage, Abrini can be seen driving a Renault Clio used in the attacks.

The coordinated attacks in six locations around Paris, including restaurants, the Stade de France stadium and the 1,500-capacity Bataclan concert hall killed 130 people and left scores more wounded.

A suicide vest found in a garbage bin could give investigators new clues about Abdeslam’s whereabouts.

A street cleaner found an explosive vest similar to those used in the Paris attacks near the place where a suspect’s mobile phone was discovered.

Henry Samuel in Paris writes that the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks returned to the Bataclan concert venue while a police operation to kill the remaining gunmen was still underway, the Paris prosecutor has revealed.

“The investigation must continue to determine his precise role”, Molins said.

Abdeslam remains at large, 11 days after the carnage in Paris.

As millions of Americans prepare to travel for the US Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, the agency said potential attackers could target private or government interests. However they deny any knowledge of what Abdeslam had been doing in France.

President Francois Hollande has vowed to intensify strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq in the wake of the attacks.