Two Paris attackers came from Brussels, official says

The investigation into the bloodshed widened discovery after a suspected getaway vehicle was found near the Bataclan and inside several AK47 rifles were found in the auto, French media quote judicial sources as saying.

In a sign of the continued tension in Paris, the Place de la Republique – where huge crowds had gathered – was suddenly evacuated with people fleeing in terror.

Abdeslam is one of three brothers suspected of involvement in the Paris attacks, one of whom – reportedly called Ibraham – died in the Bataclan while the other was arrested in Belgium. It turned out to be a auto left running in the street.

Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old man from Courcouronnes, a town 16 miles south of Paris in Essonne, has been officially identified as another assailant. They were living in Belgium, the statement added. Seven suspected terrorists are dead and seven other suspects were detained in Belgium on Sunday in connection to the deadly attacks.

Speaking after leading a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee, Home Secretary Theresa May said the United Kingdom authorities were working to find anyone involved in the “barbaric attacks” in the French capital. The three men arrested in Brussels on Saturday had been stopped and checked the same day at a Franco-Belgian crossing as part of new border controls. Hours had passed since investigators identified Abdelslam as the renter of a Volkswagen Polo that carried hostage-takers to the Paris theater where nearly three-quarters of the 129 victims were killed.

Police released a photo of him and warned the public he is unsafe and said “do not intervene yourself”. They spoke on condition of anonymity.

Although Brussels, the home to the institutions of the European Union and to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, has experienced a few violence, such as the killing of four people in an attack on a Jewish museum past year, Paris has appeared a higher-profile target, more clearly associated with the action in the war in Syria.

The terrorist group Islamic State, better known as ISIS, took credit for the attacks across the French capital.

The officials also said that a sleeper cell in France then met with the attackers after their training and helped them execute the plan. Around 270 Belgians are now in Syria, with around five people a month heading there, the Belgian Interior Ministry said. In several recent attacks in France, such as the January attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators have found links between the assailants and French-speakers in Syria. And a source close to the inquiry said it remained unclear whether the holder of the passport was in fact one of the suicide bombers.

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

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

Authorities say they have formally identified a suicide attacker at the national soccer stadium, and another who attacked a restaurant. They say he’s wanted connection with the attacks.

Belgian police, in cooperation with the French authorities, carried out raids at the weekend after two cars with Belgian number plates were found in Paris, one near the Bataclan concert hall where the deadliest attack took place, and the other near Pere Lachaise.