a particular folder in security, as doier on their radical activities and how do they mapping to be on radar and get to syria and back. ababdelhamid abaaoud left for syria in 201, tried to get back into europe. the got as far as greece it s believed over the winter after the charlie hebdo attack. it s believed he went back into syria and now the thought that he may be holed up in a paris suburb, so close to those hundreds of thousands of forces that have been searching for anyone in connection with these attacks is shocking. if he is apprehended today and if this is the end then it will be a huge sense of relief for paritions but at the same time there will be so many questions asked about how these people get across borders if salah abd
adjoining building and now to the one person who was inside there, it is believed possibly it could be, as i just mentioned the mastermind of at tacks, ababdelhamid abaaoud, thought could be in raqqah, syria, pulling the strings from there. firm high-ranking member of the isis terror organization. now the latest intelligence is that he could be right outside paris maybe about a mile from as you noted star defrance, the soccer stadium, one of the terror attacks here. we don t have that confirmed but we have to believe there s one person in there, taking hours not to go in there, security forces, and get him out, that he s maybe somebody important that they d like to get alive and also the terrorists have shown themselves to be brutal
now more than five hours, five suspects are in custody, one remains hold up in the apartment and the fate of ababdelhamid abaaoud is unknown. what else can you tell us? well, i think what we are in right now is the quiet after the storm and maybe before the storm. as you noted there is at least one person still holed up in that apartment and it s a standoff. you got to believe that the police here in huge numbers and i ll step back and let the cameraman show you what we re looking at. here we re looking at soldiers brought into this small town, a town more if you re from new york it s queens. if you re from san francisco it s berkeley. it s an urban area but outside of the city of paris, about one
mile and what we re looking at is soldiers. i m seeing about a dozen. we are about three blocks away from the target of all of the attention of the police and soldiers, this apartment building where we believe at least one man is holed up and police believe, suspect, think they re not absolutely positive, but they think that maybe the mastermind of the attack left 129 people dead, 350 people injured, on friday night in paris, a man by the name of ababdelhamid abaaoud is there, but we don t know what for sure. he was the target of the raid. as you noted there s been a lot of casualties, two of the suspected terrorists were killed, one at a suicide vest and she blew herself up, a woman and another person, another person was killed we believe by a sniper. passer-by was killed in the back