Police question relatives of Paris attacker

Police identified the man suspected of renting the auto that delivered attackers to the Bataclan concert hall as Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels. It warns people who see him that he is risky, saying “do not intervene yourself”.

Police detained his father, a brother and other relatives Saturday night, and they were still being questioned Sunday, the judicial official said.

The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose details of the investigation.

French officials were working with authorities in Belgium, Spain and Serbia in an attempt to shed more light on the attacks.

Two of the gunmen blew themselves up with suicide vests; the third was shot by police, French officials said.

The Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris’ public hospital system, said in a statement that “three of 80 injured people admitted Friday in absolute urgency in Parisian hospitals died”.

The Home Secretary said: “Since the firearms attack that took place in 2008 in Mumbai, we have been building the capability of police here in the United Kingdom to respond to a multiple firearms attack and developing that capability – different training for the police and ensuring that they are able to respond quickly to such an event”.

Two of the brothers’ names were on the rental contract of cars hired in Belgium and used in the assaults.

The attackers inside the Bataclan seemed quite young, according to one survivor, Julien Pearce, a journalist at Europe 1 radio who escaped by crawling onto the stage, and then out an exit door when the shooters paused to reload.

In Belgium, an official said the seven people detained would hear later Sunday whether they would be held in custody longer.

As many as three of the seven suicide bombers who died in the attacks were French citizens, as was at least one of the men arrested in Belgium.

Molenbeek has been connected with two attacks in France this year – the Islamist killer at a kosher shop in Paris in January got his guns in the district, as did the attacker overpowered on a Brussels-Paris train in August.

The Islamic State group, formerly known as either ISIL or ISIS, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

One, identified by the print on a recovered finger, was 29-year-old Frenchman Ismael Mostefai, who had a record of petty crime and had been flagged in 2010 for ties to Islamic radicalism, the Paris prosecutor said.

French President Francois Hollande has called the shootings and bombings, a few of which targeted an worldwide soccer game he was attending, “an act of war”.

A service was scheduled at Paris’s famed Notre Dame Cathedral on Sunday and streams of people continued laying flowers and candles at impromptu memorials throughout Paris.

The broadening scope of the investigation came as more signs emerged that the attackers may have infiltrated Europe as part of the influx of refugees flooding the continent – bringing the immigration debate raging on the continent back to the fore. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that as of Sunday morning, authorities had identified 103 of the 129 people killed.