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Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) used three coordinated teams of jihadists to carry out the terror attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
“We can say at this stage of the investigation there were probably three coordinated teams of terrorists behind this barbaric act,” Molins told a news conference. “Seven terrorists died during their criminal action.”
Meanwhile, the search for additional suspects in the attacks focused on Belgium, Molins said, after a French citizen and two other people were stopped and arrested at the Belgian border early on Nov. 14 in a car believed used in some way in the attacks. None of the three were on French intelligence radar, Molins said.
Three French brothers living in Belgium assisted in the Paris attacks, authorities said on Nov. 15.
French authorities said they were seeking Abdeslam Salah, 26, and described him as dangerous. “Do not intervene on your own, under any circumstances,” authorities said. Belgian officials said one of Salah’s brothers, Ibrahim, was killed during the Nov. 13 attacks and another brother, Mohamed, was detained after a series of raids on Nov. 14 in the Molenbeek area of Brussels.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the terrorists had “prepared abroad and had mobilized a team of participants located on Belgian territory, and who may have benefited — the investigation will tell us more — from complicity in France.”
Molins confirmed that French authorities had a security file on one of the dead terrorists who was a French national and had a criminal record but had never spent time in jail.
Other reports say at least one of the terrorists had entered France hidden among the migrant wave that has flooded Europe in recent months.
Molins said the death toll from the attacks was “evolving.” In addition to the dead, 352 people were wounded in the attacks, at least 99 seriously.
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