Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud behind Paris attacks

The child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital’s scruffy and multiethnic Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighborhood, the fugitive, in his late 20s, was identified by French authorities on Monday as the presumed mastermind of the attacks last Friday in Paris that killed 129 people and injured hundreds.

France has not publicly confirmed that the passport-holder is a suspect, but Greek Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said French authorities had told Greece they suspected Almohammad, whose passport was found outside the Stade de France near the body of a gunman, was indeed one of the attackers.

British police and spies are working closely with counterparts in France and Belgium to identify and pursue those behind the Paris massacre.

On August 21, a heavily-armed passenger who boarded an Amsterdam-to-Paris Thalys high-speed train at Brussels opened fire in a train vehicle before being overpowered by three Americans, two of them off-duty members of the USA armed forces. Investigators have no news about the third brother.

Meanwhile, Belgian public broadcaster RTBF said sources close to the investigation had revealed that three Belgian cars were involved in Friday’s attacks.

Born in the modest Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, he had eight convictions for petty crimes but had never served a prison sentence. Police detained his father, a brother and other relatives Saturday night, and they were still being questioned Sunday, the judicial official said.

Quoting an unnamed senior official, Israeli television said Israel’s spy services saw a “clear operational link” between the Paris mayhem, suicide bombings in Beirut on Thursday, which killed 43, and the Oct 31 downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt, where 224 people died.

The hardscrabble area in the west of Brussels has always been considered a focal point of Islamic radicalism and recruitment of foreign fighters to go to Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi dispatch, which was obtained by the AP, provided no details on when or where the attack would take place, and a senior French security official told the AP that French intelligence gets these kinds of warnings “all the time” and “every day”.

Salah Abdeslam is said to be very unsafe.

Between 2005-2012, he lived in Chartres, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) southwest of Paris, his former neighbours told AFP, and regularly attended a mosque a few kilometres away in Luce, a source close to the investigation said.

Seven people had been arrested in relation to the Paris attacks in raids in Molenbeek, Thoreau said Sunday.

Survivors have also claimed a woman was among the group shooting randomly into the crowd at the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Batacan before three blew themselves up and a fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their bomb.

A search warrant has been issued for Salah Abdeslam, said to be one of the perpetrators of the attacks.

Friday’s violence, which occurred 11 months after gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda carried out a deadly attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was the worst atrocity to strike the French capital in recent memory. It called the operation the largest attack by French air power since France in September joined the U.S.-led coalition in targeting suspected IS power bases in Syria.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday that French police have raided homes of suspected Islamists overnight across the country. The attacks wounded 350 people, 99 of them seriously.

WATCH: Migrants and refugees arriving at the Macedonian-Serbian border crossing of Tabanovce were horrified to learn of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris.

The last he knew, Mostefai had gone to Algeria with his family and his “little girl”, he said, adding: “It’s been a time since I have had any news”.