Security Officials Identify One Assailant in Paris Attacks, Chasing Another

Authorities say they have formally identified a suicide attacker at the national soccer stadium, and another who attacked a restaurant.

It’s possible that suspects directly involved in Friday’s Paris terror attacks remain at large, a French counterterrorism source close to the investigation told CNN on Sunday.

Investigators in France, Belgium, Greece and Germany are now trying to find out who these men were, how they carried out such a vast coordinated attack, and why.

The news of a ninth suspect follows an announcement from the brother of Salah Abdeslam, the eighth suspected Paris attacker, who urged Salah to turn himself in as authorities step up their already-extensive manhunt. Police have also appealed people to help them in tracing the suspect, but warned people, not to approach Salah, as “he is dangerous”.

According to Le Monde, the names of brothers came to spot light after police recovered a black Volkswagen Polo near paris.

He was one of three people in a auto stopped by police, but then allowed to continue their journey, near the Belgian border on Saturday.

Abdeslam has been identified as the renter of a auto used in the attack.

Prosecutors on Sunday disclosed a growing Belgian connection to the Paris attacks as Premier Charles Michel conceded that a Brussels neighbourhood is a “gigantic problem” given its past links to global terrorism. Those arrested were in contact with the Paris attackers, a senior Belgian counterterrorism source told CNN.

The only dead attacker to be named so far is a 29-year-old Frenchman, Ismail Omar Mostefai. Six of the attackers died in suicide explosive attacks while the last was shot dead.

It said that a total of seven people had been detained for questioning.

One of his brothers had detonated a suicide vest down the street from the theater; another was ultimately detained in Belgium, officials said.

Belgium has issued an global arrest warrant for a man suspected of having taken part in the Paris attacks with two of his brothers, a judicial source said Sunday.

Latest reports say a raid has been carried out by authorities inquiring the assaults in a Paris suburb, Bobigny.

Twelve aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, dropped 20 bombs, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials claimed the attacks on Paris were planned.

“They also land in districts which are breeding grounds for radicalisation”, she said, before taking a dig at her socialist predecessor: “One should have been firmer from the start”.

Belgian media reported that three people were arrested during the raids, but the number was not confirmed officially.

The Bataclan concert hall is where 89 people were killed, while Pere Lachaise, known for the cemetery where leading literary and other figures are buried, is nearby.

French President Francois Hollande will meet with President Obama at the White House next Tuesday, the White House announced Tuesday, to coordinate the United States’ efforts to assist France’s investigation into the attacks. CNN has not independently verified that the men were picked up by authorities.

Security has been stepped up, with military reinforcements drafted in.

At the same summit meeting, the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said there was no need for a complete review of the bloc’s refugee policy in response to the terrorist attacks. A few of the suspects were Belgian residents or citizens, and investigators believe the a few of the planning for the attack may have happened inside the country.