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| Paris attacker named as Omar Ismaïl Mostefai as investigation continues – live updates | Paris attacker named as Omar Ismaïl Mostefai as investigation continues – live updates |
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| 6.22am GMT06:22 | |
| My colleague Michael Safi has more on Omar Mostefai, the man identified by the French media as one of the attackers: | |
| A severed finger at the site of the Bataclan theatre reportedly led French authorities to identify the first of seven terrorists responsible for killing 129 people and wounding 352 in a string of attacks across Paris on Friday night. | |
| Multiple sources have identified to French media one killer as Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, a 29-year-old of Algerian origin. | |
| He was one of three gunmen to storm the Bataclan theatre. | |
| Mostefai’s former home and birthplace in the poor southern Parisian suburb of Courcouronnes, was searched on Saturday. | |
| Jean-Pierre Georges, a French MP, said the alleged terrorist also lived in Chartres, in south-west Paris, until 2012. | |
| Mostefai drove to the theatre on Friday in a black or grey Volkswagen Polo registered in Belgium. The other two gunmen involved in the attack on the venue are yet to be identified. | |
| Read the full report here: | |
| Related: Paris attacks: severed finger found at Bataclan theatre identifies attacker | |
| 6.06am GMT06:06 | |
| Footage shot by concert-goer Seb Snow at the Bataclan venue shows the moment the Eagles of Death Metal concert was interrupted by shooting on Friday evening in Paris. | |
| Gunfire can clearly be heard; the film does not contain distressing images. | |
| 6.00am GMT06:00 | |
| Justin McCurry | |
| My colleague Justin McCurry sends this dispatch on some of the survivors’ stories that are emerging in the wake of the atrocities: | |
| Some played dead as the gunmen scanned the room looking for new victims; others ran for their lives as soon as the shooting started. Stories of courage, fear – and sheer luck – have emerged in the wake of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris that left at least 129 people dead and 352 injured. | |
| Massimiliano Natalucci, an Italian tourist, was coming to terms with his second lucky escape, 30 years after he survived the Heysel stadium disaster, in which 39 people died. Then, as on Friday, the 45-year-old escaped unharmed. | |
| Natalucci’s family told Italian newspaper Corriere Adriatico that had suffered only scratches on one leg in the attack at the Bataclan venue, where 1,500 people were attending a concert by the US band Eagles of Death Metal. By the time the shooting ended, 89 concertgoers were dead. | |
| Natalucci was aged 15 when he and his father and uncle got caught up in the disaster at the Heysel stadium in Brussels, when a wall collapsed just before the start of the 1985 European cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, killing 39 people. | |
| 5.48am GMT05:48 | 5.48am GMT05:48 |
| Arrests in Belgium | Arrests in Belgium |
| Belgian police have arrested several people over alleged links to the Paris attacks in a huge sweep, including one who was in the French capital at the time of the attacks, AFP reports. | Belgian police have arrested several people over alleged links to the Paris attacks in a huge sweep, including one who was in the French capital at the time of the attacks, AFP reports. |
| Justice minister Koen Geens said the arrests were in connection with a grey Polo that had been rented in Belgium that was found near the Bataclan concert hall. | Justice minister Koen Geens said the arrests were in connection with a grey Polo that had been rented in Belgium that was found near the Bataclan concert hall. |
| The arrests – local media said three people had been detained – took place in the Brussels district of Molenbeek that has been linked to several other terror plots in Europe. | The arrests – local media said three people had been detained – took place in the Brussels district of Molenbeek that has been linked to several other terror plots in Europe. |
| Police in Belgium – the European country with the highest proportion of citizens who have gone to fight for Isis – have opened a formal terrorism investigation. | Police in Belgium – the European country with the highest proportion of citizens who have gone to fight for Isis – have opened a formal terrorism investigation. |
| Paris prosecutor François Molins said one of the vehicles used in Friday’s attacks was registered in Belgium and hired by a French national living there. | Paris prosecutor François Molins said one of the vehicles used in Friday’s attacks was registered in Belgium and hired by a French national living there. |
| Witnesses in Paris said some attackers arrived in a car with Belgian plates. | Witnesses in Paris said some attackers arrived in a car with Belgian plates. |
| The Observer’s Daniel Boffey reports that Molenbeek “was casually described by one Belgian broadcaster as a ‘den of terrorists’, where returnees from Syria have in recent years often made their home”: | The Observer’s Daniel Boffey reports that Molenbeek “was casually described by one Belgian broadcaster as a ‘den of terrorists’, where returnees from Syria have in recent years often made their home”: |
| Related: A discarded parking ticket in a car near the Bataclan leads detectives to Brussels | Related: A discarded parking ticket in a car near the Bataclan leads detectives to Brussels |
| 5.33am GMT05:33 | 5.33am GMT05:33 |
| Agence France-Presse has profiled the man identified by media reports – but, as yet, not officially confirmed – as one of the attackers: Omar Ismail Mostefai. | Agence France-Presse has profiled the man identified by media reports – but, as yet, not officially confirmed – as one of the attackers: Omar Ismail Mostefai. |
| Omar Ismail Mostefai was known to police as nothing more than a petty criminal before he became the first gunman identified from Friday’s attacks in Paris, which left at least 129 dead. | Omar Ismail Mostefai was known to police as nothing more than a petty criminal before he became the first gunman identified from Friday’s attacks in Paris, which left at least 129 dead. |
| Identified by his finger, which was found among the rubble of the Bataclan concert hall, the 29-year-old was one of three men who blew himself up killing 89 people in the bloodiest scene of the carnage. | Identified by his finger, which was found among the rubble of the Bataclan concert hall, the 29-year-old was one of three men who blew himself up killing 89 people in the bloodiest scene of the carnage. |
| Born on 21 November 1985, in the poor Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, Mostefai’s criminal record shows eight convictions for petty crimes between 2004 and 2010, but no jail time. | Born on 21 November 1985, in the poor Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, Mostefai’s criminal record shows eight convictions for petty crimes between 2004 and 2010, but no jail time. |
| On Saturday Paris prosecutor François Molins said the man since named as Mostefai had been singled out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in 2010 but, before Friday, he had “never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association”. | On Saturday Paris prosecutor François Molins said the man since named as Mostefai had been singled out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in 2010 but, before Friday, he had “never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association”. |
| Investigators are now probing whether he took a trip to Syria last year, according to police sources. | Investigators are now probing whether he took a trip to Syria last year, according to police sources. |
| The killer’s father and 34-year-old brother were placed in custody on Saturday evening and their homes were searched. | The killer’s father and 34-year-old brother were placed in custody on Saturday evening and their homes were searched. |
| “It’s a crazy thing, it’s madness,” his brother told AFP before he was taken into custody. | “It’s a crazy thing, it’s madness,” his brother told AFP before he was taken into custody. |
| “Yesterday I was in Paris and I saw how this shit went down.” | “Yesterday I was in Paris and I saw how this shit went down.” |
| The brother, one of four boys in the family along with two sisters, turned himself in to police after learning Mostefai was involved in the attacks. | The brother, one of four boys in the family along with two sisters, turned himself in to police after learning Mostefai was involved in the attacks. |
| While he had cut ties with Mostefai several years ago, and knew he had been involved in petty crimes, his brother said he had never imagined his brother could be radicalised. | While he had cut ties with Mostefai several years ago, and knew he had been involved in petty crimes, his brother said he had never imagined his brother could be radicalised. |
| The last he knew, Mostefai had gone to Algeria with his family and his “little girl”, he said, adding: “It’s been a time since I have had any news.” | The last he knew, Mostefai had gone to Algeria with his family and his “little girl”, he said, adding: “It’s been a time since I have had any news.” |
| “I called my mother, she didn’t seem to know anything,” he said Saturday. | “I called my mother, she didn’t seem to know anything,” he said Saturday. |
| A source close to the enquiry said Mostefai regularly attended the mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, to the southwest of Paris. | A source close to the enquiry said Mostefai regularly attended the mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, to the southwest of Paris. |
| 5.16am GMT05:16 | 5.16am GMT05:16 |
| Opening summary | Opening summary |
| Claire Phipps | Claire Phipps |
| Welcome to continuing coverage of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris, as investigators build a picture of the attackers and their network, and we learn more about the victims. | Welcome to continuing coverage of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris, as investigators build a picture of the attackers and their network, and we learn more about the victims. |
| Here is what we now know: | Here is what we now know: |
| It’s crazy, insane. I was in Paris myself last night, I saw what a mess it was. | It’s crazy, insane. I was in Paris myself last night, I saw what a mess it was. |
| Updated at 5.20am GMT | Updated at 5.20am GMT |