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| Paris attacks: police hunt 'ninth suspect' as Germany on alert after Hanover bomb threat – live | Paris attacks: police hunt 'ninth suspect' as Germany on alert after Hanover bomb threat – live |
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| 12.33am GMT00:33 | |
| Was there a ninth attacker? | |
| Investigators now believe there could have been a ninth attacker directly involved in Friday’s nights atrocities, suggesting there could now be two suspects at large, reports my colleague Julian Borger: | |
| French police have said that video footage of the Paris attacks reveals the presence of a ninth, previously unnoticed, jihadi, who could still be at large. | |
| The video shows the new suspect in a black Seat car with two other attackers, opening fire with assault rifles through its window at customers at a bar in central Paris, a source close to the inquiry told Agence France Presse. | |
| The car was later found abandoned in Paris suburb of Montreuil, with three AK47 rifles in it. | |
| On the same night, three attackers died at the Bataclan theatre, and three more at the Stade de France. If there were three people in the Seat, it would bring the total number of attackers to nine. | |
| One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Ibrahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up one Paris’s boulevard Voltaire. | |
| His brother, Salah Abdeslam, is on the run and is the target of a Europe-wide manhunt. | |
| If there was another man in the Seat, he is unaccounted for and police were facing the possibility they were chasing two fugitives from the crime scene rather than just one. | |
| Salah Abdeslam was last seen crossing the French border to Belgium in the company of two other men early on Saturday morning. Those two alleged accomplices were detained in Brussels over the weekend and charged on Tuesday with terrorism offences for their role in the Paris attacks, after admitting that they had escorted Abdeslam back from the French capital to Brussels. | |
| You can read the full report here: | |
| Related: French police hunt for second fugitive believed to be involved in Paris attacks | |
| 12.27am GMT00:27 | |
| French president François Hollande is to visit the US next week to discuss “further cooperation as part of the counter-Isil [Isis] coalition”, the White House has confirmed. | |
| The statement reads: | |
| President Obama will host President François Hollande of France for a meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday, November 24, in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris of November 13. | |
| This visit will underscore the friendship and solidarity between the United States and France, our oldest ally. | |
| President Obama and President Hollande will consult and coordinate our efforts to assist France’s investigation into these attacks, discuss further cooperation as part of the 65-member counter-ISIL coalition, and reiterate our shared determination to confront the scourge of terrorism. | |
| 12.19am GMT00:19 | |
| French media has further detail on the mobile (cell) phone reportedly found close to the Bataclan. | |
| ITélé reports that the phone contained a detailed map of the inside of the music venue, as well as a message sent minutes before the attack: “On y va” (“let’s go”). | |
| Un portable de kamikaze retrouvé au bataclan. A l intérieur un plan détaillé de la salle et le sms "on y va" envoyé qq mn avant l'attaque | |
| 12.10am GMT00:10 | |
| Phone found with 'let's go' message – reports | |
| Reuters reports: | |
| A cell phone has been found near the site of one of Friday’s Paris shootings with a map of the music venue that was attacked and a text message on it saying words to the effect of “let’s go”, a source with knowledge of the investigations said. | |
| Confirming reports on French web site Mediapart and US television channel CNN, the source said the phone was found in a dustbin near the Bataclan concert hall where the bloodiest of the shootings took place. | |
| CNN reports that the message was found on an encrypted app on the phone. | |
| The Guardian has not yet been able to verify the reports independently. | |
| 11.56pm GMT23:56 | 11.56pm GMT23:56 |
| Opening summary | Opening summary |
| Welcome to continuing live coverage as we follow events in the wake of the attacks on Paris on Friday. | Welcome to continuing live coverage as we follow events in the wake of the attacks on Paris on Friday. |
| The latest key developments centre on the hunt for what police now believe could be two attackers on the run, and a “concrete” terrorist threat in Germany, forcing the cancellation of a football match in Hanover. | The latest key developments centre on the hunt for what police now believe could be two attackers on the run, and a “concrete” terrorist threat in Germany, forcing the cancellation of a football match in Hanover. |
| Here are the key points: | Here are the key points: |
| Hanover | Hanover |
| More on Hanover here. | More on Hanover here. |
| Paris | Paris |
| Fresh anti-Isis strikes | Fresh anti-Isis strikes |
| Updated at 12.18am GMT |