It's been almost a week since France was terrorised when Islamic State militants went on a rampage at six different locations and killing innocent people. While the Paris attack mastermind was killed in a deadly seven hour-long raid on Wednesday, one of the suspects is still at large.
A French flag is displayed in a crowd as several thousand people gather at the Place du Capitole in Toulouse to pay tribute to the victims of the series of deadly attacks in the French capital. Photograph: Fred Lancelot/Reuters
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The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was caught on camera at a Metro train station in the capital on the night of the carnage, a police source said on Friday.
CCTV showed Abaaoud, who was killed in a police raid on an apartment on Wednesday, at a station near where police found a Seat car that was used in the coordinated wave of attacks last Friday that killed 129 people.
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The search for Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been extended to include the Netherlands, where Abdeslam had spent time in the past.
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Hasna Ait Boulahcen was the suicide-vest-clad woman killed during Wednesday's raid on an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. Boulahcen, 26, was a relative of Abaaoud, officials said. Friends of her family in their hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, said she had lived there until recently.
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s own family prayed for his death. His father’s attorney, speaking to CNN, said, that he thought his son was a "psychopath" and a "devil," and he feels guilty about his son's radicalization.
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was involved in four out of six attacks foiled in France this year. He was linked to a plot in April to attack a church near Paris. Police are also investigating a possible connection to the attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris in August, which was foiled by two American men. He also reportedly had links to an Islamist cell that was broken up in a raid by security forces in the town of Verviers in Belgium in January.
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A fresh video has been released by Islamic State militants threatening to attack the White House. The latest video was released only 24 hours after the jihadists put out another video earmarking New York City as another target. Titled "Paris Before Rome," the video shows an Islamic State fighter threatening to "pound" French monuments and vowing to strike at the White House. "We will blow it up, the same as we blew up the idols in this good land," one fighter says, referring to the White House.
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The black Seat found in Montreuil was one of three cars discovered after the massacres and investigators believe one of three "commando" teams of attackers used it to attack several bars and restaurants.
