French police launched more than 150 raids across the country overnight as part of a manhunt in the wake of Paris’s deadly terror attacks, NBC News reported. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed the raids to RTL Radio, according to NBC News. French authorities released more information on two of the other suspects on Monday. An alleged attacker at the Bataclan concert hall was identified as Paris-born Samy Amimour, 28. Officials said one of the suicide bombers at the Stade de France was carrying a Syrian passport in the name of Ahmad Al-Mohammad but it was not immediately clear whether the document was authentic and if that was the suspect’s real identity.
The subject of an international manhunt, believed to be directly involved in Friday’s massacre in Paris was questioned by police and released hours after the attack, four French officials told The Associated Press. Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old man born in Brussels, was pulled over by police on the Belgium border hours after authorities had identified him as the renter of a black Volkswagen Polo, which was allegedly used and abandoned by the hostage-takers who killed 89 people inside a Paris concert hall. Abdeslam is on the run and allegedly the brother of a suspect currently in custody and being questioned, as well as one of the deceased attackers, Reuters News reported. Three separate teams of terrorists armed with Kalashnikovs and identical explosives vests laid coordinated siege to Paris at six locations in the French capital — which struck a soccer stadium, a crowded concert hall and busy restaurants — killing 129 people and wounding at least 350 others, 99 seriously. French officials were working with authorities in Belgium, Spain and Serbia in an attempt to shed more light on the attack, which ISIS claimed responsibility for and which French President Francois Hollande described as an “act of war.”
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