Three coordinated teams responsible for Paris attacks, one perpetrator identified: Prosecutor

French prosecutors said on Nov. 14 that three coordinated teams of gunmen and suicide bombers carried out a wave of attacks across Paris that killed 129 people, while one of the attackers' identity was determined.  

French officials have identified one of the Paris attackers as Ismael Mostefai, a 29-year-old Frenchman who had been flagged for links to Islamic radicalism, the Associated Press reported. A French judicial official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said Mostefai's father, a brother and other family members have been detained and are being questioned on Nov. 15.

The Paris prosecutor said one of the attackers was a 29-year-old Frenchman born in the Chartres region who had been known to authorities for radicalism. The prosecutor said he was identified by fingerprints on a finger found in the carnage of the Paris attacks on the night of Nov. 13.

Hollande declared a state of emergency, ordering police and troops into the streets, and set three days of official mourning as a stunned nation sought to comprehend the simultaneous assault on restaurants, a concert hall and the national soccer stadium on a busy Friday evening. 

As a cross-border investigation gathered pace, prosecutors said the slaughter - claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as revenge for French military action in Syria and Iraq - appeared to involve a multinational team with links to the Middle East, Belgium and possibly Germany as well as home-grown French roots, Reuters reported. 

Ominously, Greek officials said one and perhaps two of the assailants had passed through Greece from Turkey alongside Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their homeland. 

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