Paris attacks suspect reportedly arrested in Belgium raid

Struggling to keep his country calm and united after an exceptionally violent year, President Francois Hollande met Sunday with opposition leaders – conservative rival and former President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as increasingly popular far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has used the attacks on Paris to advance her anti-immigrant agenda.

This proposal followed a raft of measures unveiled by Hollande in a historic speech to parliament on Monday, in which he called for an extension of the state of emergency by three months and announced 8,500 new jobs to help counter terrorism.

The Paris attacks on Friday, claimed by IS, have galvanized global determination to confront the militants.

“We’re a totally open family, we’ve never had any problems with the police”, he said. The Republic – he said – would defeat terrorism.

A total of 104 suspects were placed under house arrest and seized weapons that include a rocket launcher, a CNN report said. Belgium has issued an global warrant for his arrest. A French national living in Belgium, he is the brother of fugitive suspect Salah Abdeslam. A Brussels parking ticket found inside led police to at least one of the arrests in Belgium, a French police official said.

Belgian police raided Saturday a neighbourhood of the capital Brussels in connection with the deadly attacks in Paris, public television RTBF reported.

A third brother was reportedly among the seven people arrested by Belgian officials in Molenbeek on Saturday.

One of his brothers was a suspect killed in the attacks, Thoreau said. Another brother was arrested by Belgian police but later released.

Global Desk: A huge manhunt is under way for surviving members and accomplices of the Islamist group that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday night, said BBC.

Pope Francis this morning expressed his “deep sorrow for the terrorist attacks”, saying, “to the President of the Republic Of French and all the citizens I offer the expression of my deepest sympathy”.

The questioning came when police pulled over a auto near the Belgian border, hours after authorities had already identified Salah Abdeslam as the renter of a Volkswagen Polo that was abandoned at the scene of the attack.

The newspaper said police also found ammunition in one of the homes, including bullets used in Kalashnikov assault rifles of the kind used by a few of the Paris attackers. But they were unable to locate him, the source told CNN. We found out about it from the television as many of you did. We did not think for one moment that one of my brothers was linked to the attacks.

Prosecutors say they believe three groups of attackers were involved in the Paris carnage, raising the possibility that one group may still be at large.

Three suicide bombers attacked the Stade de France. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The senator, who was briefed by France’s interior minister, told CNN that the man was carrying the passport and also a registration document for refugee status by Greek authorities.

Stunned and grieving Parisians continued to flock to shrines of candles and flowers, while photographs of smiling young victims have been pasted at attack sites or outside their places of work.

The US will also be contributing the investigation, as five FBI agents have left for Paris, a law enforcement official briefed on the situation told ABC News.

– Security will be tight when France plays England at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday.