Paris Prosecutor Says Likely Attackers Operated In Three Teams

Paris Prosecutor Says Likely Attackers Operated In Three Teams
Lights along Rue Royale in Paris pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks.
Lights along Rue Royale in Paris pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks.
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PARIS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The attackers who killed 129 people in Friday night's wave of shootings and suicide bombings in Paris appeared to be made up of three teams, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said on Saturday.

"We can say at this stage of the investigation there was probably three coordinated teams of terrorists behind this barbaric act," he told a news conference.

He also confirmed that French authorities had a security file for Islamist radicalisation on one of the attackers, who also had a criminal record, but had never spent time in jail.

He added that a person who had hired one of the cars used in the attacks was stopped at the Belgian border.

(Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Andrew Callus)

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