Other plots linked to Abaaoud
Abdelhamid Abaaoud is suspected
of organizing the Paris attacks.
Known links between suspects
A foiled plot in January in Verviers, eastern Belgium, in which two of his associates died.
DEAD
ARRESTED
A plot in April to attack a church in a Paris suburb.
Mr. Abaaoud is suspected of being a leader of a branch of the Islamic State in Syria called Katibat al-Battar al Libi, which has its origins in Libya.
An attack in August aboard a high-speed train heading to Paris.
BROTHERS
Salah Abdeslam
Bilal Hadfi
Ibrahim Abdeslam
Ismaël Omar Mostefaï
Mr. Hadfi was in contact through Facebook with members of the branch and is thought to have linked arms with Mr. Abaaoud in Syria.
Ibrahim Abdeslam and Mr. Abaaoud spent time in the same Brussels prison, and were friends.
Mr. Mostefaï had been in contact with Mr. Abaaoud, according to a French official.
Mohamed Amri
Hamza Attou
After the attacks, Salah Abdeslam asked Mr. Attou and Mr. Amri to drive him back to Brussels. They have both been arrested and charged.
The Molenbeek Connection
Salah and Ibrahim Abdeslam lived near Mr. Abaaoud in Molenbeek, a district in Brussels known as a haven for extremists. They, Mr. Attou and Mr. Amri spent time together at a neighborhood bar.
Other suspected terrorist plots have been linked to Molenbeek.
Amedy Coulibaly, who was involved in the Charlie Hebdo attack, is believed to have bought weapons there.
Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman who targeted Jews at a Brussels museum in 2014, killing four, also bought weapons there.
Ayoub el Khazzani, a Moroccan who tried to attack passengers on a high-speed train between Brussels and Paris in August, is thought to have lived there.
Top Suspect Killed in Wednesday Raid
The New York Times
French police raided an apartment early Wednesday in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis, a few miles from where the suicide bomb attacks at the Stade de France took place. At least two people died, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27- or 28-year-old Belgian man who has fought for the Islamic State in Syria and is suspected of planning the Paris attacks. Eight others were arrested.
Intelligence officials in both France and the United States had previously said they believed Mr. Abaaoud was in Syria. He has been prominently featured in Islamic State propaganda and according to a European official, was a target of Western airstrikes in Syria as recently as last month.
| CHIEF PLANNER | SUSPECT | STADIUM ATTACKERS | BATACLAN ATTACKERS | RESTAURANT ATTACKER | |||||
 Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27 or 28 |  Salah Abdeslam, 26 |  Passport holder* |  Bilal Hadfi, 20 |  Unidentified | Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, 29 |  Samy Amimour, 28 | Unidentified | Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31 | |
| Status | Dead | At large | Dead | Dead | Dead | Dead | Dead | Dead | Dead |
| Nationality | Belgian | French (living in Belgium) | French (living in Belgium) | French | French | French (living in Belgium) | |||
| Known connection to chief planner | — |  | | | |||||
| Believed to have visited Syria | | | | | | | |||
| Committed previous crimes | | | | | | ||||
| Previous terrorism connection suspected | | | | | |||||
*The pictured man had been carrying a passport that identified him as Ahmad al-Mohammad, from Idlib, Syria, but French authorities believe that the passport may have been stolen. They have asked the public for help in identifying the man.
Raids in French and Belgian Dragnet
On Thursday, several police raids were held in the Brussels area, many of them targeting friends and relatives of Bilal Hadfi, one of the stadium bombers. At least nine people were detained.
The police led 414 raids across France over the three nights early in the week, Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, said in a statement on Wednesday. Sixty people were arrested and detained, and 75 weapons were seized. The statement added that 118 people were put under house arrest.
Two were also arrested and charged in Brussels on Saturday in connection with the attacks.
A Neighborhood in Brussels Was
Home to Several Linked to the Attacks
The New York Times
Molenbeek, well known as a haven for extremists, was also the base for Mr. Abaaoudand Salah and Ibrahim Abdeslam, two brothers connected with the attacks. The three lived close to the district’s main police station and would hang out at a neighborhood bar that was at one time owned by Ibrahim and became known as a local drug den.
Hamza Attou and Mohamed Amri, who were arrested Tuesday in connection with the attacks, also hung out at the bar.
Salah Abdeslam
Two Brothers Are Linked to the Attacks
The French authorities are investigating the role of two brothers who lived in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels. Ibrahim Abdeslam died in the Paris attacks, andSalah Abdeslam is being sought. The two used to hang out with Mr. Abaaoud at a neighborhood bar.
A third brother, Mohamed, was detained on Saturday but released on Monday and is not believed to have been involved.
Salah Abdeslam, 26
The French police asked the public to help track him down on Sunday, publishing his name and photograph and saying that he had been “potentially involved” in the attacks. Officials say he rented the Volkswagen Polo used to transport the concert hall attackers.
The morning after the attacks, Mr. Abdeslam and two other men went through a roadside check in Cambrai, France, on the way to Belgium. Later that afternoon in Molenbeek, the car was seized and Mr. Abdeslam’s two companions, Hamza Attou, 21, and Mohamed Amri, 27, were arrested. He is still being sought.
Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31
Ibrahim Abdeslam died detonating a suicide vest at a cafe during Friday’s attacks. He had a history of criminal activity and once stood trial for a petty crime with Mr. Abaaoud, according to sources who received confirmation from the Belgian authorities.
The New York Times
Three Bombers Attacked the Stadium
Three attackers detonated suicide vests outside of the Stade de France, where a soccer match between France and Germany was being played.
Gate D Bomber
The first attacker detonated his explosives at 9:20 p.m. on Rue Rimet, near Gate D of the stadium. One other person was killed.
The attacker was carrying a passport for a 25-year-old individual named Ahmad al-Mohammad from Idlib, Syria. The passport had been used by a man posing as a migrant who passed through the Greek island of Leros on Oct. 3 and Presevo, Serbia, on Oct. 7. The French authorities believe that the passport may have been stolen, and the French police asked the public on Tuesday for help in identifying the man, using a photo from an identity document that was issued in Greece.
Gate H Bomber
The unidentified second attacker at the stadium detonated his explosives at 9:30 p.m. on Rue Rimet, near Gate H of the stadium. No one else was reported killed.
Bilal Hadfi, 20
The third attacker, identified as Bilal Hadfi, a 20-year-old French citizen living in Belgium, detonated his explosives at 9:53 p.m. on Rue de la Cokerie, just outside of a McDonald’s restaurant about 300 meters from the stadium. No one else was reported killed.
Mr. Hadfi is thought to have gone to Syria early this year. In June, he posted a call on Facebook to attack the West, saying, “Those dogs are attacking our civilians everywhere. Strike them in their community of pigs so they can’t feel safe again in their own dreams.”
The New York Times
Three Men Attacked the Concert Hall
Three men with assault rifles attacked people during a concert at the Bataclan music hall and rounded up survivors as hostages. Police entered the hall at 12:30 a.m. One attacker’s suicide vest detonated when he was shot by police, while the other two attackers detonated their vests on their own. A total of 89 people were killed at the hall.
Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, 29
One of the concert hall attackers has been identified as Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, a 29-year-old French citizen with a history of criminal activity who was known by authorities as someone who had radical Islamist beliefs. Six of his relatives were detained by authorities for questioning.
According to an official, he was in contact with Mr. Abaaoud, who is suspected of being an organizer behind the attacks. Mr. Mostefaï reportedly entered Turkey in 2013 but “there is no record of him leaving the country.”
Samy Amimour, 28
Samy Amimour was born in Paris and lived in a suburb, according to the French prosecutor's office. He had been previously charged with terrorist conspiracy, and in December 2014, the French newspaper Le Monde published an article about how his father had traveled to Syria to try to bring him back (he was not named at the time).
Third Attacker
Unidentified.
What We Know
The attackers arrived at the Bataclan in a gray Volkswagen Polo and abandoned the car nearby. The car was rented by Salah Abdeslam in Belgium.
The New York Times
Another Team Attacked Restaurants
Gunmen using Kalashnikov-type assault rifles killed 39 people in three separate shootings outside restaurants in central Paris, leaving behind hundreds of 7.62 mm cartridge cases. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside another restaurant in the area.
Shooters
An unknown number of shooters in a black Seat Leon attacked three locations between 9:25 p.m. and 9:36 p.m.
Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31
At 9:40 p.m., a suicide bomber identified as Ibrahim Abdeslam, a 31-year-old French citizen living in Belgium, detonated a vest identical to the ones used near the stadium inside a restaurant a mile from the where the last round of restaurant shootings occurred. No one else was reported killed in the explosion. It is unclear if the bomber had been in the car with the shooters.
Mr. Abdeslam had at one point stood trial for petty crime with Mr. Abaaoud, according to sources who received confirmation from Belgian authorities.
What We Know
A black Seat Leon used as the shooters’ getaway car was found Sunday morning in Montreuil, an eastern Paris suburb. The car, which contained three Kalashnikov rifles, was rented in Belgium last week by Ibrahim Abdeslam.
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