The suspected Islamic State mastermind of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid north of the capital, France confirmed on Thursday, bringing an end to the hunt for Europe's most wanted man very sad for france.
Islamic State says it carried out the attacks in retaliation for French air raids against its positions over the past year.it's ISIS.
France has called for a global coalition to defeat the group and has launched air strikes on Raqqa, the de-facto Islamic State capital in northern Syria, since the weekend. Russia has also targeted the city in retribution for the downing of a Russian airliner last month that killed 224.
The Belgian prime minister, Charles Michel, has rebuffed any criticism of his country’s security services over the Paris attacks,
France has said a terror cell in Brussels planned the attacks, and the run-down suburb of Molenbeek was home to several of the suicide bombers, as well as france is very raised county. wanted man Salah Abdeslam and the now-dead Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
France’s interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, contradicted that a few moments ago, saying no intelligence had been received from any European country that Abaaoud was back in Europe.
It was three days after the attacks that France received a tipoff from “outside Europe” that Abaaoud may have passed through Greece, Cazeneuve said.
Cazeneuve said Abaaoud was the subject of a European and international arrest warrant issued by Belgium,
because he had been sentenced in absentia to 20 years’ imprisonment for terrorism recruitment.
France had information that he had connections to several planned attacks in France, including the attempted church bombing in the Paris suburb of Villejuif last April.
