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Paris attacks: 'Three teams' involved - prosecutor Molins | |
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Three teams of attackers were involved in the assault on Paris, in which 129 people have been killed and more than 350 injured, the Paris prosecutor says. | Three teams of attackers were involved in the assault on Paris, in which 129 people have been killed and more than 350 injured, the Paris prosecutor says. |
"We have to find out where they came from... and how they were financed," Francois Molins told reporters. | "We have to find out where they came from... and how they were financed," Francois Molins told reporters. |
He said seven attackers had been killed, and that all had been heavily armed and wearing explosive belts. | |
The attacks on Friday night hit a concert hall, a major sports stadium, restaurants and bars. | |
Mr Molins also said the arrests of three men in Belgium on Saturday were linked to the attacks. | |
Meanwhile Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced that one of the suspects picked up near Brussels had been in Paris on Friday evening. | |
Explosive vests | |
Speaking in Paris on Saturday evening, Mr Molins told reporters: "We can say at this stage of the investigation there were probably three co-ordinated teams of terrorists behind this barbaric act." | |
He also confirmed that one of the dead attackers had been identified as a 30-year-old Frenchman who had a criminal record but had never spent time in jail. | |
He said all seven militants had used Kalashnikov assault rifles and the same type of explosive vests. |