French police carry out 150 raids targeting Islamists

Amimour was the subject of an global arrest warrant, and had been placed under supervision after attempting to travel to Yemen in 2012.

The Islamic State group has said it was behind Friday’s gun and bomb attacks on Parisian bars and restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France, the country’s main sports stadium.

Turkey warned France twice about one of the gunmen involved in Paris attacks, Turkish officials said Monday. One of the brothers was killed in the attacks, and another was arrested by Belgian police, he said.

Mostefai had a record of petty crime and had been flagged in 2010 for ties to Islamic radicalism, the Paris prosecutor said. Now, his whereabouts are unknown. An unnamed official told the Associated Press that Abaaoud also was linked to the attempted attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in August that was stopped by passengers.

Brussels police on Monday surrounded a property in Molenbeek, but did not find him.

He also pledged to hire 5,000 more police within the next two years, to freeze cuts in military personnel through 2019, and to introduce other bills that would stiffen jail terms for arms trafficking and make it easier to deport suspected terrorists. Two then detonated suicide vests as police stormed the building, fatally shooting the third attacker.

Sharp differences over Syrian President Bashar Assad’s future and disagreements about which militant groups in Syria should be considered terrorists are adding difficulty to the G-20 effort today to present a coordinated response to the Paris attacks.

He was travelling with two other people, just hours after he abandoned a vehicle containing three Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles on the outskirts of the French capital.

A worldwide manhunt is under way for the mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks, who has been identified as Belgian Moroccan man Abdelhamid Abaaoud. The 20-year-old, was identified by police as one of the three suicide bombers at the Stade de France.

Le Monde reported that Hadfi is the 20-year-old French citizen living in Belgium whom the Paris prosecutor’s office described but didn’t identify by name.

“Syria has become the biggest factory of terrorism the world has ever known and the worldwide community is still too divided and too incoherent”.

French media reported there had been arrests in Grenoble, in south-eastern France, where anti-terror officers recovered firearms and cash.

The raids targeted people on a special watch list, Valls said. At least 352 people were wounded in the attacks, 99 of them seriously.

A Frenchman wanted in connection with the Paris attacks has reportedly been arrested in Brussels. No weapons or explosives were found.

The two other men who drove across the border with Abdelslam were arrested.

Abaaoud, who authorities suspect orchestrated the Verviers plot from Greece, is believed to have joined ISIS in Syria in early 2014, Guy Van Vlierden, editor of a blog on Belgian foreign fighters, told CNN this year.

Security sources said one of the three brothers died in the Bataclan concert hall where the worst of the bloodshed took place, while another had been detained along with six other people in Belgium. France was already part of a U.S.-led coalition conducting airstrikes on ISIS, and since Friday’s attacks, French officials have vowed to fight back.

On Monday, CNN affiliate BFM reported that French officials believe that six of the people directly involved in the attacks had spent time in Syria.

Valls, speaking on French radio RTL Monday morning, says the climate summit is “crucial to the planet’s future”.

The officials also said a sleeper cell in France met the attackers and helped them to plan Friday’s assaults.

Another brother, Mohammed Abdeslam, spoke to CNN affiliate BFMTV after his release from custody, saying his parents were in shock. French officials have determined that the bomber was among refugees who arrived on the Greek island of Leros among numerous Syrian refugees on October 3.