French police arrested yesterday 25-year old Mohamed S. another accomplice of Abdelhamid Abaaoud in a western suburb of Paris and taken into custody. His detention may last for four days. According to a source close to the investigation, it is suspected that he was acting as an intermediary between the niece of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who sought a refuge for her cousin, and Jawad Bendaoud, who offered the two perpetrators a shelter. Bendaoud is currently the only one who has been indicted in the criminal investigation into the attacks in Paris on November 13, which left 130 dead and more than 350 wounded. He was indicted for terrorism-related offenses.
New arrests – new threats
COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris, France
More than 40,000 delegates from 195 countries headed by US President Barach Obama and French President Francois Hollande including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Chinese President Xi Jinping are attending COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris, France which has the goal of achieving a legally binding agreement to keep global warming below what most scientists say is the critical threshold of 2 degrees Celsius of global warming. World leaders will discuss the Earth’s atmosphere which is now overloaded with heat-trapping carbon dioxide and threatens large-scale disruptions in climate with disastrous consequences.
Sec-Gen. Ban’s office released a statement praising President Hollande and France for going ahead with the meeting despite the attack. He said he and the French President had agreed that “failure to reach an agreement was not an option.”
