Paris terror attacks live: Hunt continues for fugitive as German stadium evacuated - latest updates
A second unidentified fugitive is being sought by French officials
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Your support makes all the difference.Hannover stadium in Germany has been evacuated by police less than two hours before a friendly between Germany and the Netherlands was due to start. Police called off the match after "concrete" plans for an explosion were discovered. Here are the latest updates:
- Hannover stadium evacuated after 'suspicious suitcase found'
- A second fugitive is being sought in connection with the attacks
- Three terror suspects have been arrested in Germany
- Bombers' hotel rooms and flat have been searched by police
- Two Belgians arrested for driving suspect out of Paris
- Salah Abdeslam is still at large and visited Austria in September
- French jets launch second night of air strikes on Isis targets
- George Osborne warns Isis is plotting deadly cyber attacks
- Doctors and nurses describe night of the attacks
- Man carrying same 'fake' Syrian passport as bomber in Serbia
- Isolation is fuelling young Muslims' anger in Paris
- A man has written a defiant tribute to his murdered wife
- Video of 'London Muslims celebrating attacks' is fake
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The strikes, the second set in 24 hours, targeted a jihadi command centre and training centre in Isis' stronghold and de-facto capital of Raqqa, according to a spokesman for France's military command.
Last night, France's President, Francois Hollande, said "France is at war" and vowed to step up the bombing campaign, as well as to join forces with both Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama in an effort to create a unified response to the threat of Isis.
French officials have named the alleged ringleader behind the Paris attacks and an international manhunt continues for Salah Abdeslam, who rented a car used to carry gunmen to the Bataclan music venue in Paris.
His older brother, Brahim Abdeslam, was the suicide bomber who blew himself up on Boulevard Voltaire and a third brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, was released without charge on Monday after being arrested at the weekend.
The attackers at the Bataclan have been named as Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman, and Omar Ismael Mostefai, 29, who was also French.
Bilal Hadfi, thought to be 20, one of three who attacked the Stade de France. He is said to have fought with Isis in Syria.
Another man who blew himself up as President Hollande watched the friendly match between France and Germany inside was found with a Syrian passport in the name of Ahmad Al Mohammad.
It was unclear if the document was legitimate but the Paris prosecutor's office said fingerprints from the attacker match those of a person who travelled through Greece last month after arriving with asylum seekers on the island of Leros.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian Isis fighter who recruited his own 13-year-old brother to join the group in Syria, was named by a French official as the presumed mastermind of the co-ordinated attacks.
He has been linked to several failed terror attacks over the last year and is still at large.
Additional reporting by agencies
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