Arrondissements of Paris

Anti-terror squads are on a huge manhunt for accessories of the Paris Attacks on Friday, November 13, with investigations in many countries around Europe, mainly France, Belgium and Greece. The course of the jihadists who struck against civilians is being traced through these three regions and police are scouring areas in these countries with surgical precision.

French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for a united front with the United States and Russia to crack down on the Islamic State group.

French authorities are scrambling to find Abdesalam Salah, who is believed to have taken part in the Paris attacks. French police reportedly questioned Salah just hours after the deadly rampage, only to let him go. Belgium’s RTL reported on Monday that Salah had been captured after a huge manhunt, however the report was refuted by RTBL that cited sources from the Belgium prosecutor’s office.

French authorities have launched raids across France as the country.

* The first attacker to be identified was Omar Ismail Mostefai, aged 29, who is said to have been one of the group of at least three terrorists who spread fear, panic and death at the Bataclan concert on Friday. As police stormed the building he blew himself up, leaving police to identify his body through fingerprints.

One of the eight attackers, who carried out gun and bomb attacks at six sites across Paris on Friday night, has been identified as a Frenchman.

French police said that one of the attackers at the Bataclan concert hall, where many people had been held hostages before security forces stormed the building, was identified by his fingerprints as a Frenchman known to security services.

Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the series of attacks in Paris on Friday night, which left at least 128 people dead and more than 180 others injured.

In an official statement, IS stated that France was its "top target" and these attacks constituted only the "start of a storm", the Guardian reports.

French President Francois Hollande declared the series of attacks carried out in Paris on Friday night as constituting an "act of war organised by Islamic State (IS)".

The Foreign Ministry has no information on any Bulgarian citizens injured or killed in the multiple attacks, which left at least 120 people dead and more than 200 others wounded in Paris on Friday night.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov strongly condemned the attacks and expressed condolences to the families and relatives of the victims.

French President Francois Hollande, at the Stade de France stadium at the time of the deadly attacks at seven destinations around Paris at dawn on Saturday, made a statement regarding the attacks: