Belgians, Germans investigating possible ties to attacks

Molins also said that three people were arrested Saturday morning in connection with Paris attacks.

In Germany, officials have said a 51-year-old man arrested with weapons in his auto last week may be linked to the Paris attacks.

Three teams of attackers in identical explosives vests seem to have co-ordinated the “act of barbarism” that left a total 129 people dead and 352 injured across the French capital, Mr Molins said.

In its claim of responsibility Islamic State lashed out at the countries trying to suppress its attempt to establish a “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq and said France remains “at the top” of its list of preferred targets. “The terrorists shot at us for 10 to 15 minutes”.

French anti-terror cops worked to identify possible accomplices and prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said authorities could not rule out the chance that other militants associated with the strike remained at large. Nikos Toskas, Greece’s citizen protection minister, said the holder of the passport had passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3, entering the European Union.

Four attackers were killed at the concert hall, including three who were wearing explosives belts, police spokesman Michel Cadot told France Info radio.

“As a precaution, a heightened awareness of the police services was requested for all big events planned at the weekend in Belgium as well as for the football match on Tuesday”, it added. The guns that Islamic State terrorists used in the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January were most likely bought in Brussels, court evidence showed.

Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth, while investigators questioned relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country’s deadliest violence in decades.

Two Belgians, two Romanians and one swede have already been identified among the dead in Paris.

He said it was a rental vehicle and police organised several raids in the St. Jans Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels on Saturday.

“My impression is that Belgian authorities have been taking the threat more seriously as time as gone by”, Benjamin said. “They were prepared. They knew exactly what they were doing, and they had one goal, just to kill the most people they could”, said Julien Pearce, a journalist who was present.

Reflecting fears in other European capitals of the risk of co-ordinated or copycat attacks, the British government scheduled a meeting of its own emergency COBRA intelligence committee overseen by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Two young Tunisians, sisters who lived in the centre-eastern French region of Creusot and who were celebrating a friend’s birthday in Paris, were also killed, according to the Tunisian foreign ministry.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the places attacked are ones Parisians love, where they celebrate diversity.

People were still out around the city Saturday, a few posing for selfies along the Seine or stealing a kiss in front of the Eiffel Tower.

“I came down to the terrace and saw the girls, they were under 30”.