French authorities identified Sunday one of the eight Paris attackers killed in a series of planned shootings and bombings in the city and have arrested some of the man’s family members.

French prosecutors identified the man as Ismael Omar Mostefai as one of the attackers killed in the attacks Friday night, according to Sky News. Paris prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said some of Mostefai’s family members have been arrested but refused to further comment on how many had been detained but said searches were underway.

Sky News reported Mostefai is a French citizen, born in Courcouronnes, Essone in November 1985 and lived in Chartres, southwest of the capital. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told Sky News Mostefai had a criminal record and was known to security services, but never spent time in jail.

"He caught police's attention due to the violation of public power,” Molins said. “From 2004 to 2010, he was pronounced guilty eight times, but has never been in prison. In 2010, he was blacklisted by the police due to extreme behaviors, but never been classified into any illegal extremist groups."

Eight terrorists wielding AK-47s and wearing suicide belts carried out a series of coordinated attacks at six sites around Paris Friday night, killing at least 129 people and wounding at least 352 others.

French President Francois Hollande called the attacks an “act of war” in a Saturday morning nationally televised press conference. Hollande vowed France “will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/15/one-paris-attacker-reportedly-identified-as-ismael-omar-mostefai/

Ismael Omar Mostefai

some of Mostefai’s family members have been arrested

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I wonder if Mom & Pops got the time to put up the 9 x 12 photo of Ismael on the mantle before the cops broke the door down.

You know, the " my son the hero Martyr" photo.

sad,they "Blow Up" so fast these days!
Guess some will still doubt which side the Attacks came from!

http://news.yahoo.com/omar-ismail-mostefai-petty-criminal-cold-blooded-terrorist-050710504.html/
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Courcouronnes (France) (AFP) - Omar Ismail Mostefai was known to police as nothing more than a petty criminal before he became the first gunman identified from Friday's attacks in Paris, which left at least 129 dead.

Identified by his finger, which was found among the rubble of the Bataclan concert hall, the 29-year-old was one of three men who blew himself up killing 89 people in the bloodiest scene of the carnage.

Born on November 21 1985, in the poor Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, Mostefai's criminal record shows eight convictions for petty crimes between 2004 and 2010, but no jail time.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Mostefai had been singled out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in 2010 but, before Friday, he had "never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association".

Investigators are now probing whether he took a trip to Syria last year, according to police sources.


The killer's father and 34-year-old brother were placed in custody on Saturday evening and their homes were searched.

"It's a crazy thing, it's madness," his brother told AFP, his voice trembling, before he has taken into custody.

"Yesterday I was in Paris and I saw how this **** went down."

The brother, one of four boys in the family along with two sisters, turned himself in to police after learning Mostefai was involved in the attacks.

While he had cut ties with Mostefai several years ago, and knew he had been involved in petty crimes, his brother said he had never imagined his brother could be radicalised.

The last he knew, Mostefai had gone to Algeria with his family and his "little girl," he said, adding: "It's been a time since I have had any news."

"I called my mother, she didn't seem to know anything," he said Saturday.

A source close to the enquiry said Mostefai regularly attended the mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, to the southwest of Paris.
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I have seen 3 articles on this guy. And I am more angry than I was before. Because now I am also angry at the pres

Already... The a@@kissing!
I don't give a sh@t how old he was, his damn family or where he was born or where he went!

How dare the media refer to him as "An attacker"? This is NOT a domestic crime. He was not a murderer or serial killer.

He is a an Islamic Terrorist. And THEY declared WAR on the planet in the 1970's.
He is a solider of Satan.


Call it what it is.

I know, I know... I am sure the family is sitting around reminiscing of little Ismael and his brother having a grenade catch in the back yard.,.. time flies... doesn't it.

I wonder if they will be releasing more names,,,,,

they have made several arrests at this point,,,

Sure they will, after they are done investigating.. the rats are scattering right now and the cops do not want them to know what they know.. until they swoop down on them. So until them the police will be tight lipped.

Standard procedure.

And then the full page mug shots will come out. And those who doubted will look at the faces.. read the names and just say Ohh.. and quietly change the subject.

those who doubted what? are we confusing those who dont know, with those who doubt?

I don't know but I don't doubt.

I want to know..if this guy or ANY of his relatives are getting ANY kind of aid from the city of Paris or ANY city or the government of France?
How do I find out?
Because cut the damn cords !
And ship them out !
Charge them with treason
(If applicable).
Or an act of war or war crime,
(besides terrorism)

Consequences damn it !
Make an example of them.

Rant over

Hollande seems to be like O, absolutely no idea what to do!!
All shadow targets. He was in the football stadium!!

where did you expect him to be?
On the Barricades?

same here,, but apparently saying you dont know is the same as saying you doubt,, or even, you 'love'

<shrugs>

Oblowme's White House is saying not to worry....ISIS is contained (Yeah, like Hurricane Sandy was contained!)

Of course 4 Americans died because of a video (and only the video maker, not the govt liars (like Clinton and Rice) that patsied him, ever saw the inside of a jail cell), we can keep our insurance and Dr, there's not a smidgen of corruption in the IRS, and ISIS is only the JV team after all...

The Libs and their media always agree so it must be true

Nobody doubted who was behind it the moment the news broke....well, except for maybe a cpla sheltered idiots

but it could have been a anti immigrant groups (non Muslims) who staged this attack killing all those people ( their own kind, in a coordinated multi stage attach) and then make it look like the immigrants Muslins) did it. Then the townsfolk would have retaliated against the poor innocent Muslims.

You know.. it could have happened that way.. right..it could have....

It was not right to blame the Muslims, we (the western world world) jumped to conclusions.. Poor Muslims.. always getting a bad wrap from us who do not follow their agenda.

How delusional we are.

Tell that to the French police! They have the wrong guys in custody!

wasnt it 'possible' and entirely feasible to many that 9/11 was an inside job to incite war?


it was a theory, because its not beyond humans to incite wars they deem necessary for some greater good


there was no judgment on people who were saying it was muslim, there was only my CHOICE not to join the jump to a conclusion without MORE FACTS,,,


there was no denial that it was muslims, there was my CHOICE to have more information before stating it definitively


,,,,,try to move on people,,, seriously, its getting kind of scary, this obsession,,,,

how do you talk someone into blowing themselves up? does the president of France have special powers like bush did to make people commit suicide?

Ditto to you too....you havent shut up about it since your very first post on the other thread.