November 2015 Paris attacks

===Search for accomplices===
Three cars were recovered in Paris after the attacks:
# A grey [[Volkswagen Polo]] with Belgian licence plates abandoned near the Bataclan was hired by a French citizen living in Belgium and contained a parking ticket from the town of [[Molenbeek]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/15/parking-ticket-paris-attacks-police-belgium-molenbeek|title=A discarded parking ticket in a car near the Bataclan leads detectives to Brussels|work=The Guardian|date=15 November 2015|access-date=15 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115081045/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/15/parking-ticket-paris-attacks-police-belgium-molenbeek|archive-date=15 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
# A [[SEAT]] was found in the Paris suburb of [[Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis|Montreuil]] on 15 November and contained assault rifles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1730715-20151115-attentats-paris|title=Attentats à Paris: La police lance un appel à témoins|language=FR|trans-title=Bombings in Paris: Police have appealed for witnesses|work=20 Minutes|date=15 November 2015|access-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126102656/http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1730715-20151115-attentats-paris|archive-date=26 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
# A [[Renault Clio]] hired by [[Salah Abdeslam]] was discovered near [[Montmartre]] on 11 November and contained assault rifles.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/17/world/paris-attacks|title=Prosecutor: 3 Paris attack suspects already known to Belgians|work=CNN|date=17 November 2015|access-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118045221/http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/17/world/paris-attacks/|archive-date=18 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-34840858|title=Paris attacks: Latest updates|work=BBC News|access-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117131840/http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-34840858|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Police described Salah, a 26-year-old Belgian citizen, as dangerous, and warned the public not to approach him.<ref>{{cite news|title=French officials: Manhunt in Europe for at least one suspect 'directly involved' in Paris attacks|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=15 November 2015|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/french-police-detain-7-for-questioning-in-paris-siegethe-latest-from-paris/2015/11/15/7600c208-8b38-11e5-bd91-d385b244482f_story.html|access-date=16 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115214850/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/french-police-detain-7-for-questioning-in-paris-siegethe-latest-from-paris/2015/11/15/7600c208-8b38-11e5-bd91-d385b244482f_story.html|archive-date=15 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> He was arrested on 18 March 2016 during [[2016 Brussels police raids|an anti-terrorist raid]] in the [[Molenbeek]] area of Brussels (see [[#2016 Brussels raids|below]]).<ref name="BBC 18 Mar 2016">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35846954 |title=Brussels raids: Paris attack suspect Abdeslam 'arrested' |work=[[BBC World Service]] |date=18 March 2016 |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318164827/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35846954 |archive-date=18 March 2016 |url-status=live  }}</ref> His brother, Brahim, died in the attacks.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/europe/paris-terror-attack.html|title=Manhunt Underway as Investigation of Paris Attacks Widens|author1=Aurelien Breeden|author2=Michael Nossiter|name-list-style=amp|newspaper=The New York Times|date=15 November 2015|access-date=15 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115165436/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/europe/paris-terror-attack.html|archive-date=15 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Another brother, Mohamed, was detained on 14 November in the Molenbeek area of Brussels and released after several hours of questioning.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-attacks-mohamed-abdeslam-salah-abdeslam-fleeing-suspect-bataclan-a6736871.html|title=Salah Abdeslam's brother denies involvement in Paris attacks and says he has no idea where his brother is|author=Doug Bolton|newspaper=The Independent|date=16 November 2015|access-date=16 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033707/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-attacks-mohamed-abdeslam-salah-abdeslam-fleeing-suspect-bataclan-a6736871.html|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Mohamed said he did not suspect his siblings of planning anything.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|title=France begins to work out the identities of the Paris attackers|url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21678714-president-hollande-vows-destroy-islamic-state-france-begins-work-out-identities|access-date=18 November 2015|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118083735/http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21678714-president-hollande-vows-destroy-islamic-state-france-begins-work-out-identities|archive-date=18 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 14 November, a car was stopped at the Belgium–France border and its three occupants were questioned then released. Three more people were arrested in Molenbeek.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/14/paris-terror-attacks-live-news-updates-isis-france|title=Paris terror attacks: vigils held around the world as Parisians remain on edge&nbsp;– live updates|work=The Guardian|date=14 November 2015|access-date=14 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114181826/http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/14/paris-terror-attacks-live-news-updates-isis-france|archive-date=14 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Links to the attacks were investigated in an arrest in Germany on 5 November, when police stopped a 51-year-old man from Montenegro and found automatic handguns, hand grenades and explosives in his car.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bavaria arrest raises suspicions about links to Paris attacks|url=http://www.dw.com/en/bavaria-arrest-raises-suspicions-about-links-to-paris-attacks/a-18849866|website=DW.COM|access-date=14 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114145728/http://www.dw.com/en/bavaria-arrest-raises-suspicions-about-links-to-paris-attacks/a-18849866|archive-date=14 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 15–16 November, French tactical police units raided over 200 locations in France, arresting 23 people and seizing weapons.<ref name="Airstrikes against ISIS, Police Raids"/> Another 104 people were placed under house arrest.<ref>{{cite news|title=Terror in Paris: What we know so far|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/europe/paris-attacks-at-a-glance/index.html|publisher=CNN|access-date=16 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116102745/http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/europe/paris-attacks-at-a-glance/index.html|archive-date=16 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34840699|title=Paris attacks: France mobilises 115,000 security personnel|work=BBC News|date=17 November 2015|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424062639/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34840699|archive-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 17 November, police followed a female cousin of the attacker and ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, to a block of flats in Saint-Denis where they saw Abaaoud with her.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-shooting-idUKKCN0T40DY20151121|title=Tapped phone led Paris attack leader to his death|last1=Thomas|first1=Leigh|last2=Bon|first2=Gerard|date=21 November 2015 |publisher=[[Reuters]] UK |access-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121035051/http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/21/uk-france-shooting-idUKKCN0T40DY20151121|archive-date=21 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Hasna Ait Boulahcen – Europe's first female suicide bomber – 'did not blow herself up'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/isis-paris-attacks-hasna-ait-boulahcen-did-not-blow-herself-in-saint-denis-raid-a6742666.html|author=Samuel Osborne|work=The Independent|date=20 November 2015|access-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120194304/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/isis-paris-attacks-hasna-ait-boulahcen-did-not-blow-herself-in-saint-denis-raid-a6742666.html|archive-date=20 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The next day, police [[2015 Saint-Denis raid|raided a flat in Saint-Denis]], and Abaaoud was killed in the ensuing gunfight, which lasted several hours.<ref name="wpost-2015-11-18"/><ref name="msn-2015-11-18"/><ref name=tgam20151119/> Chakib Akrouh, one of the perpetrators of the restaurant shootings, also died during the raid after detonating an explosive vest.<ref name=ChakibAkrouh>{{cite news|title=French identify another Paris attacker via DNA from body parts|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-shooting-cafekiller-idUKKCN0UT1E4 |publisher=[[Reuters]] UK |date=15 January 2016 |access-date=15 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118035719/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-shooting-cafekiller-idUKKCN0UT1E4|archive-date=18 January 2016|url-status=live|last1=Bon|first1=Gérard}}</ref> Eight suspected militants were arrested at or near the flat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/fait-divers/hasna-aitboulahcen-identifiee-parmi-les-trois-morts-de-l-assaut-de-saint-denis_1737918.html|title=Hasna Aitboulahcen est morte dans l'assaut, mais elle n'était pas kamikaze|language=fr|trans-title=Hasna Aitboulahcen died in the assault, but she was not a kamikaze|work=lexpress.fr|date=20 November 2015|access-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125125037/http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/fait-divers/hasna-aitboulahcen-identifiee-parmi-les-trois-morts-de-l-assaut-de-saint-denis_1737918.html|archive-date=25 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 23 November, an explosive belt was found in a litter bin in the Paris suburb of [[Montrouge]]. It may have been discarded by Salah Abdeslam, whose phone records showed that he was in Montrouge on the night of the attacks.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-shooting-idUKKBN0TC2C020151123|title=France finds explosive belt, detects Paris suspect's phone |publisher=[[Reuters]] UK |date=23 November 2015|access-date=23 November 2015}}</ref>

On 24 November, five people in Belgium were charged on suspicion of their involvement in the Paris attacks, and Belgian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Mohamed Abrini, a 30-year-old suspected accomplice of Salah Abdeslam.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34908858|title=Hollande and Obama to intensify anti-IS push|date=24 November 2015|access-date=24 November 2015|publisher=BBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124151704/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34908858|archive-date=24 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Abrini was subsequently reported to have been arrested on 8 April 2016.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36000407|title=Paris attacks: 'Key suspect Abrini' arrested|work=BBC News |date=8 April 2016 |access-date=8 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408153019/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36000407|archive-date=8 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> He is also suspected of having been involved in the [[2016 Brussels bombings]].<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/>

On 9 December, two ISIL militants accompanying two of the Paris attackers into Europe, all masquerading as migrants, were arrested in Greece weeks before the attacks.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-europes-migrant-crisis-became-an-opportunity-for-isis/2016/04/21/ec8a7231-062d-4185-bb27-cc7295d35415_story.html|title=Tracing the path of four terrorists sent to Europe by the Islamic State|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=21 April 2016|access-date=5 September 2016|first1=Anthony|last1=Faiola|first2=Souad|last2=Mekhennet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012140330/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-europes-migrant-crisis-became-an-opportunity-for-isis/2016/04/21/ec8a7231-062d-4185-bb27-cc7295d35415_story.html|archive-date=12 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=DailyTelegraph.Captured>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/05/mystery-member-of-paris-attacks-cell-only-captured-in-july-despi/|title=Mystery member of Paris attacks cell only captured in July despite posting on Facebook from Belgium|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=5 September 2016|access-date=5 September 2016|first=Henry|last=Samuel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906075158/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/05/mystery-member-of-paris-attacks-cell-only-captured-in-july-despi/|archive-date=6 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> In July 2016, a third militant involved was also arrested despite regular activity on Facebook from Belgium.<ref name=DailyTelegraph.Captured/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-isis-had-bigger-plans-000000943.html|title=Report: ISIS had bigger plans for Paris attacks|work=Yahoo! News|date=5 September 2016|access-date=5 September 2016|first=Caitlin|last=Dickson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906002409/https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-isis-had-bigger-plans-000000943.html|archive-date=6 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The three militants were part of a unit intended to carry out further attacks on 13 November, but their plans were apparently disrupted by the first two arrests.<ref name=DailyTelegraph.Captured/>

[[Fabien Clain]] was identified as the person reading the ISIL claim of responsibility. Clain was a French national who served 5 years from 2009 to 2014 in a French prison for recruiting fighters to go to Syria for jihad. Clain has been linked to other executed and planned terror attacks and is seen as a leader of known terrorists.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/fr-ca/actualites/attaques-a-paris/fabien-clain-la-voix-de-l%C3%A9tat-islamique/ar-BBn7VxV?li=AAanjZr|title=Fabien Clain, la voix de l'État islamique|trans-title=Fabien Clain, the voice of the Islamic State|work=MSN|language=fr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085929/http://www.msn.com/fr-ca/actualites/attaques-a-paris/fabien-clain-la-voix-de-l%C3%A9tat-islamique/ar-BBn7VxV?li=AAanjZr|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

[[Jawad Bendaoud]] was arrested 18 November 2015 for "criminal terrorist association for the purpose of committing violent action", as he provided lodging for Abaaoud, Hasna Aït Boulahcen, and a third man.  In September 2017, the prosecuting judge filed for Bendaoud's trial for "concealment of terrorist criminals", a charge with a maximum penalty of six years.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Emeline Cazi|last2=Adrien Pécout|title=Jawad Bendaoud, a well known "landlord" in the streets of Saint-Denis|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-paris/article/2015/11/24/jawad-bendaoud-un-logeur-bien-connu-dans-les-rues-de-saint-denis_4816364_4809495.html|access-date=11 September 2017|work=Le Monde|date=24 November 2015|language=fr|quote=Since his arrest on Wednesday, November 18, Jawad Bendaoud insists that he did not know the identity of his three recent "tenants" of 8, rue du Corbillon: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged instigator of the attacks of November 13, his cousin Hasna Aït Boulahcen, as well as a third man with an unknown identity. All killed during the RAID assault.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115031/http://www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-paris/article/2015/11/24/jawad-bendaoud-un-logeur-bien-connu-dans-les-rues-de-saint-denis_4816364_4809495.html|archive-date=11 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Attentats à Paris: le "logeur" des djihadistes du 13 novembre 2015 échappe aux assises|url=https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_attentats-a-paris-le-logeur-des-djihadistes-du-13-novembre-2015-echappe-aux-assises?id=9703996|access-date=11 September 2017|work=RTBF|date=8 September 2018|language=fr|quote=In their order signed Wednesday, the investigating magistrates ordered that Jawad Bendaoud be tried for " concealment of terrorist criminals ", said the source, a crime punishable by a six-year prison sentence as he is in a state of recidivism .|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115435/https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_attentats-a-paris-le-logeur-des-djihadistes-du-13-novembre-2015-echappe-aux-assises?id=9703996|archive-date=11 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>