Assailant in Paris attacks identified, relatives questioned
French police have identified one of the assailants in the coordinated attacks in Paris as Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year- old French national, and seven of his relatives are being questioned, sources and French media said on Sunday. Authorities had a dossier on Mostefai that marked him as a potential Islamist militant. Mostefai was one of the gunmen who blew himself up in a Paris concert hall where most of the 129 deaths from the attacks late on Friday took place.
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