Monday 16 November 2015

France carries out raids, fails to nab suspect

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The French police said it has identified the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks as Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud.


It has been reported that Abaaoud had links to thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train and church.

Belgiumj police have arrested seven people in Belgium suspected of links to the attacks and an international arrest warrant has been issued for a Belgian-born Frenchman who is still at large.

Meanwhile two more suicide bombers involved in the massacre of 129 people on Friday have been identified by the prosecutor's office.

Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012, blew himself up inside the Bataclan theatre on Friday night.

Salah Abdeslam
Prosecutors said he was from Drancy in northeast Paris and had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.

Three people in Amimour's family have been in custody since early on Monday.

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A suicide bomber who died outside the national football stadium was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib.

The identity of the man in the passport has not been verified but the prosecutor's office said fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.

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It is claimed another suspect was questioned and released by police hours after the massacres.

Salah Abdeslam, 26, reportedly helped with logistics and rented a black Volkswagen Polo used by the gunmen who stormed the Bataclan concert hall and killed at least 89 people on Friday night.

He was apparently spoken to by officers on Saturday morning when they pulled over a car carrying three people near the Belgian border.

Police then checked Abdeslam's ID and subsequently let him go, officials told the Associated Press.



Source: Bloom Gist, Sky News, French24

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