Police question relatives of Paris attack suspect

Each of the terrorists who blew themselves up was wearing “vests or belts” heavy with detonators and metal fragments, such as “nails and ball-bearings”, the sources said.

Abdeslam was thought to be directly involved in the attacks, which killed more than 129 people and wounded hundreds in the worst violence in France in decades, French security officials said.

“My name and picture were all over the news yet I was able to stay in their homeland, plan operations against them, and leave safely when doing so became necessary”, said Abaaoud, who is identified in the magazine as Abu Umar al-Baljiki.

“It’s been a time since I have had any news [about him]”.

French media reported there had been arrests in Grenoble, in south-eastern France, where anti-terror officers recovered firearms and cash. Police Chief Volker Kluwe said, “We had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device inside the stadium”. Abaaoud is believed by counterterrorism officials to be the likely link between the senior ISIS leadership and the militant group’s operatives in European countries. “We knew (Hadfi) was in Syria”, Van Der Sypt said. “Such barbarity leaves us shocked and we wonder how can a human heart conceive and organize such disgusting acts, that have shocked France and the whole world”. They carried out Friday’s attacks in multiple locations across Paris, broken up into three groups.

A total of 89 people were killed at the Bataclan concert hall by the armed men who burst in shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) before gunning down concert-goers watching Californian band Eagles of Death Metal.

It was later found abandoned with a cache of weapons inside.

Meanwhile police have questioned the father and brother of a man suspected of being involved in Friday’s coordinated attacks in Paris.

Investigators haven’t said much about how they believe Abdeslam is tied to the shootings and bombings that targeted people at restaurants, bars, a concert venue and a sports stadium.

A three-hour battle raged Monday in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, said Mayor Francoise Schepmans. His current whereabouts are unknown.

A lawyer for one of the men, who has not been named, declined comment, telling Reuters she had not yet seen the police report. When Belgian police stopped the vehicle later Saturday, Abdeslam was no longer in it.

Abdelslam, a French resident of Belgium, was not among those arrested.

It’s not clear why the local French police, known as gendarmes, didn’t take Abdelslam into custody.

No one was arrested, Thoreau said.

A major police raid in the impoverished immigrant district of Molenbeek in western Brussels targeting Salah ended without any arrests on Monday.

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

“It’s a serious hypothesis”, a French source close the investigation said, adding that Abaaoud is still living in Syria – large areas of which are ISIS-controlled.

Four dead attackers have been identified so far, and authorities are still trying to identify the others.

He was placed under supervision in 2012 after anti-terrorism authorities investigated an aborted attempt to travel to Yemen, the statement said. French jets have launched fresh aerial raids on the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, following the tragedy. The official did not specify who those three attackers were.

The initial strike was by a team of suicide bombers outside the Stade de France where the first blew himself up at 9:20pm, while the French and German national football teams were playing a friendly.

The fingerprints from the bomber at the Stade de France match those taken when the man was issued his emergency passport on Leros.