Manhunt underway for terror suspect who was let go by police
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Friday’s attacks on a stadium, a concert hall and Paris cafes that left 129 people dead and over 350 wounded, 99 of them seriously.
Still unclear what his involvement was in Friday night’s attacks. A few of the suspects have been linked to the bloody civil war raging in Syria that has enabled ISIS to thrive.
“Those who organized these attacks, and those who carried them out, are exactly those who the refugees are fleeing”, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters at the G-20 summit in Turkey.
Tantalizing clues about the extent of the plot have emerged from Baghdad, where senior Iraqi officials told the AP that France and other countries had been warned on Thursday of an imminent attack.
Authorities are hunting for a Belgium-born French national who is suspected to have been involved in the Paris terror attacks. Belgium has issued an global warrant for him.
A auto rented in Brussels was found near one of the sites of the Paris attacks, which triggered the raids, Lacoere said.
In the aftermath of the attacks, Belgian police raided several addresses in the district.
His whereabouts since being released at the border are unknown.
The two men, ages 20 and 31, were both French nationals living in Brussels, Belgium.
He said the patients were silent when they arrived, late on Friday and in the early hours of Saturday.
In the Alpine city of Grenoble, according to the local newspaper Le Dauphine Libere, at least half a dozen people were arrested and guns and money were seized. Police identified him from a severed finger found outside the Bataclan concert hall.
Also Sunday, a French judicial official said the father, brother and other family members of suicide bomber Omar Ismael Mostefai – the only terrorist to be publicly identified by authorities – were detained and were being questioned, French media reported. Its statement mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, and called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity”.
“Let this be clear to everyone, this is just the beginning, these actions are going to continue”, Cazeneuve said. The magazine said the black Seat vehicle was discovered in the Montreuil neighborhood in eastern Paris on Sunday, indicating that a few attackers may have escaped.
Eventually, he made his way to Paris, where he was one of three men who blew themselves up at the Stade de France.
Samy Amimour, 28, blew himself up inside the Bataclan concert venue on Friday night.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Mostefai was on authorities’ radar for radicalization in 2010, but had not previously been implicated in a terrorism investigation. The 20-year-old, was identified by police as one of the three suicide bombers at the Stade de France.
Abdelslam, a French resident of Belgium, was not among those arrested.
There are reports that he had travelled to Syria.
Three teams of suspects carried out six separate attacks, officials said, before seven attackers were killed by detonating their explosive belts.
Paris remains on edge amid three days of official mourning.
The first stadium attacker was carrying the passport, a French senator who was briefed by the Interior Ministry told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Syrian citizen, born in Idlib in 1990.