Details on Two Paris Assailants Emerge as Investigation Widens
PARIS — The investigation into theParis terrorist attacks unfurled across Europe on Sunday, from France to Belgium to Serbia, as the authorities worked to track down the identities and allies of the assailants who laid siege to Paris for three terrifying hours on Friday night, killing at least 129 people.
French investigators were hunting for more information on the first of the attackers to be identified, Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, 29, a French citizen who had been living in Chartres, 60 miles southwest of Paris.
There were also indications that not all of those involved in plotting and carrying out the attacks had been killed on Friday night. In the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil, the authorities found three Kalashnikov rifles — the kind used in the attacks — in an abandoned black Seat Leon that was used as a getaway car for the shooters at several restaurants in central Paris.
French officials were also coordinating closely with the authorities in Belgium, who made a series of arrests on Saturday that left open the possibility that the plot had roots there. At least one of the seven men detained was linked to a rented Volkswagen Polo that had been used by the three terrorists who killed 89 people at the Bataclan concert hall.