(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) French security and judicial officials have made fast progress in identifying several of the attackers that carried out six shootings and three bombings in the Paris region last Friday killing 129 people and wounding 352 others 40 of whom are in critical condition.On Monday the prosecutor's office said that a second man involved in the bloody attack that killed 89 people in the Bataclan concert hall Friday had been identified as Samy Amimour 28 a French national born in the Paris region.Already Sunday police identified another terrorist from the Bataclan as Omar Ismail Mostefai a French national 29 years old.Both terrorists blew themselves up when police stormed the concert hall. A third terrorist inside has still not been identified.The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said operations were continuing to identify and arrest suspects and he said France would be "inflexible" in its war on terror. Prosecutors also said they had now indentified others involved Friday including suicide bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam whose brother Salah is wanted and suspected of being the mastermind of the terror operations. Salah escaped to Belgium on Friday night after the attacks but was controlled by French police before being released. Ibrahim Abdeslam blew himself up on a central boulevard in the 11th district at the same time as the Bataclan operation was ongoing. Both of these men were French nationals but living in Belgium.For his part Amimour was on police files here for terrorist activities and sympathies and was charged in October 2012 for his links with a terrorist group linked with Yemen and he was under administrative monitoring but not necessarily active surveillance.Another man involved in the suicide bombings at the National Stadium of France on Friday was being identified as a Syrian national but more verifications of his supposed Syrian passport found near the scene of his suicide bombing were ongoing.He is believed to be one of three attackers blew themselves up in a foiled attempt to enter the stadium and detonate their devices which would have had catastrophic consequences but they were stopped because two of them didn't have tickets the Prosecutor's office indicated earlier. But the Syrian passport has raised questions about its authenticity.President Francois Hollande was in the building watching a France-Germany soccer friendly when the explosions took place and he was "extracted" rapidly by his security detail.French police continue raids throughout the country Monday as there is a clamp down on radicals and anyone suspected of supporting terrorists foreign fighters or networks linked with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or conflicts in Syria Iraq or other countries in the Middle East. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve indicated in a press statement that police and interior ministry forces carried out 168 raids around France overnight and made 23 arrests in 19 different departments of the country. Police seized 31 weapons including some weapons of war and many automatic handguns documents drugs and computers.Cazeneuve said that he has ordered 104 people placed under house arrest in line with the "State of Emergency" declared after the terror attacks on Friday.The Interior Minister said this was only the beginning of the war on terror that was called for because of the terror threat which he said remains "at a high level." He added that France had prevented this year some 203 people from leaving to fight in foreign wars and had stopped 62 people from entering France.Also 87 Internet sites promoting terrorism or radicalism have been closed here since January and 34 people preaching radicalism including Imams had been expelled from France.
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