A cross-border investigation to identify the terrorists who carried out a wave of attacks that killed 129 people across Paris is gathering pace, as police hunt for possible accomplices.

French president Francois Hollande called the attacks an "act of war" by Islamic State militants, declared a state of emergency and set three days of official mourning as a stunned nation sought to comprehend the simultaneous assault on the Bataclan concert hall, a series of bars and restaurants and the Stade de France sports venue.

Prosecutors said there were seven attackers killed in total, working as part of three multinational "teams" with links to the Middle East, Belgium and possibly Germany as well as home-grown French roots.

Greek police said one and perhaps two of the assailants had registered as refugees with Greek authorities earlier this year.

A Syrian passport was found near the body of one of the terrorists who detonated a bomb outside gate D of the Stade de France, killing himself and a passerby.

Greek officials confirmed the passport had been used by its owner to pass through the island of Leros near the coast of Turkey on October 3.

The authenticity of the passport was being checked, but its discovery indicates a possible Syrian connection in the violence.

Who is Ismael Omar Mostefai, the gunman from the Paris attacks identified by his severed finger?


Any identity documents and fingerprint records would have to be matched with the remains of the actual attackers to establish whether they passed through Greece posing as refugees, or perhaps bought or stole passports along the way.

In France, police have taken six people into custody, including the father, brother and sister-in-law of one of the attackers, identified as Ismael Omar Mostefai.

The 29-year-old French national had not done any jail time but had been identified as "radicalised" by police.

He was identified using a severed fingertip.

His brother, who is 34, contacted police on his own initiative before being taken into custody along with his father.

Police searched the family's home in the small town of Romilly-sur- Seine, 130 kilometres east of Paris, as well as his brother's home in nearby Bondoufle.

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In Belgium, three people were arrested as part of an anti-terrorism probe centred on a Belgian hired car found near the site of one of the Paris attacks, Belgian prosecutors said.

It was one of two vehicles used in a string of attacks in central Paris within the space of less than an hour.

The Paris prosecutor said one of the vehicles — a grey Volkswagen Polo — used in the attacks was registered in Belgium and hired by a French national living in Belgium.

Source: http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-15/details-emerge-about-paris-attackers-syrian-passport-found/6941864

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