Police find vehicle rented by wanted Paris attacks suspect

French authorities have said most of the Friday attackers – five have been identified so far – were unknown to them.

“It was only on November 16, after the Paris attacks, that an intelligence service outside Europe signaled that it had been aware that he had been in Greece”, he said, without specifying when Abaaoud was spotted there and who gave France the intelligence.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian man authorities believe orchestrated the terrorist attacks on Paris a week ago, was killed during a blazing gun battle north of the city early Wednesday, two senior European intelligence officials have reportedly confirmed.

Following Friday’s attacks that claimed the lives of 129 people, a Syrian passport was found near one of the suicide bombers near the Stade de France, just north of Paris.

A government official named the man as Belgian-born Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, 26, who escaped back to Belgium on Saturday (Sunday NZT) after the attacks and eluded a police dragnet in the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek, where he lived with his two brothers.

French police carried out another 120 raids overnight on suspected ISIS supporters, while warplanes launched more attacks on ISIS targets in Syria.

Hollande is going to visit Washington and Moscow later this month to meet with President Barack Obama and Putin to discuss ways of stepping up global cooperation against IS and how to end the fighting in Syria.

Air strikes carried out on Tuesday destroyed a jihadist command post and a training camp, according to French military spokesman Col Gilles Jaron.

Abaaoud, who is believed to be close to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was linked to a plan to attack Belgian police that was thwarted in January.

French President François Hollande called a historic meeting of both of the French legislative chambers to say that the nation would be relentless and unforgiving in an attack campaign against the extremist group in Syria and that France was at war.

Prosecutors said 28-year-old Samy Amimour was one of the gunmen who massacred 89 people in the Bataclan concert hall – the scene of the most bloodshed. They are said to be relocating in the city of Mosul, Iraq.

“Charlie Hebdo itself unveiled its tribute cover for the attacks depicting a dancing reveller, bottle and glass in hand, with champagne pouring out of holes in his body”.

Two men arrested in Belgium, meanwhile, admitted driving to France to pick up Salah Abdeslam early Saturday, their lawyers said.

His former defense lawyer, Olivier Martins, told The Associated Press the cards “sell for a lot of money to people who want to remain on Belgian territory”.

Following the brutal incident that left people from all over the world in awe, French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency.