French citizen directly involved in terror attacks being hunted by officials
The police warned the public: “Do not intervene on your own, under any circumstances”.
The French capital remained on edge Sunday as authorities conducted an intensive search for Abdeslam and possibly others involved in Friday’s terror attacks who vanished unscathed into the vast city. Molins said the man had a security file for Islamist radicalisation, adding that he had a criminal record but had never spent time in jail.
The federal prosecutor’s office said seven people had been arrested on Saturday afternoon and evening, with investigations centring on their possible involvement in Friday’s attacks.
Crucial, if sparse, details about four of the attackers came into view on Sunday. The fingerprints of the passport holder taken by Greek authorities match those of the terrorist who blew himself up at the Stade de France, the senator said.
Paris police are on full alert and tensions are high, as this routine traffic stop on Sunday showed. Three attackers were killed during a counter-assault by French security forces.
The Associated Press also reported that a major action with heavily armed police is underway in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek amid a manhunt for a suspect of the Paris attacks.
He is thought to have been born in Courcouronnes, near Paris, and to be of of Algerian descent. He was normal. He had a joie de vivre. The second was a grey Polo parked near the Bataclan concert venue, which had Molenbeek parking tickets inside.
In the vehicle, authorities reportedly found several Kalashnikov rifles, which were the same guns used in Friday’s attacks.
The Belgian authorities also announced that they had detained seven men. Three of them passed through a roadside check in Cambrai, France, at 9:10am Saturday, while on the A2 highway heading to Belgium. Seat is a Spanish-made auto popular across much of Europe. He was identified through tests on his severed finger. He was known for petty crimes committed between 2004 and 2006.
Candles and flowers at the gates of the French Embassy in Berlin on Sunday. We ran all the way round to the McDonald’s, they were firing at McDonald’s.
David Cameron said the UK’s safety and security depended on “degrading and ultimately destroying” the Islamic State (IS) “death cult”.
“We need everybody in order to exterminate Daesh, and especially the Russians”, Sarkozy told reporters, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.
President Francois Hollande called the coordinated assault on Friday night an “act of war” as the capital’s normally bustling streets fell eerily quiet, 10 months after attacks on magazine Charlie Hebdo shocked the nation.
The alleged link between one of the attackers and the huge numbers of refugees from the Syrian war who have been flocking to Europe this year has intensified concerns about how to handle the massive influx of people. “We will hit this enemy to destroy them, obviously in France and Europe… but also in Syria and Iraq”, he said.
Agence-France Presse said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the G20 meeting attempted to dissuade members from reneging on a continent-wide refugee resettlement program.
The newspaper quoted Merkel’s deputy, Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, as saying that “now of all times we mustn’t be cowed”. “There is no need to revise the European Union’s entire refugee policy”.
The G20 leaders are expected to focus largely on terrorism in the wake of the attacks in Paris.
“It’s not known whether he took part in the attacks or was an accomplice, but what is clear that his name does not figure among those who have been arrested so far”.