The terror cell was connected to the Islamic State (IS), a jihadist terrorist organisation primarily based in Syria and Iraq.

Seven of the terrorists died during the attacks; two of the remaining three were tracked down five days later and killed in the 2015 Saint-Denis raid along with the woman who had provided them with a hideout.

On 15 March 2016, the police raided a flat in the Brussels district of Forest, killing one terrorist whilst two others escaped.

A second major attack then took place on 22 March in Brussels in which coordinated bombings at the airport and at a metro station killed 32 people.

[1] Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the Stade de France: Hadfi was a 20-year-old French national of Moroccan descent who had been living in Belgium.

[1] Another of the Stade de France bombers carried a fake Syrian passport with the name "Ahmad al-Mohammad".

His fingerprints matched those of a man registered as a Syrian refugee under the same name on the island of Leros in October 2015 upon his arrival from Turkey.

[7] In January 2017 a declassified French intelligence file identified the bomber as Ammar Ramadan Mansour Mohamad al-Sabaawi, an Iraqi in his twenties from Mosul.

He was then supposed to detonate his own suicide vest in the 18th arrondissement (district) of Paris but the device malfunctioned and he returned to Brussels the following morning.

He picked up members of the group returning from Syria via the migrant route in Germany and Hungary and drove them to Brussels.

[16][17] Three men carried out the shootings at bars and restaurants in Paris:[1] Abaaoud (8 April 1987 – 18 November 2015), was a Belgian of Moroccan descent who had grown up in Molenbeek.

[18][19] He joined IS forces in Syria and on his return to Europe had directed the Verviers terrorist cell from Athens in Greece.

[18][20] In July 2015, he was sentenced by a Belgian court in absentia to 20 years in prison for recruiting jihadists, and an international arrest warrant was issued for him.

[19] Abaaoud was one of the three gunmen who drove through the 10th and 11th arrondissements of Paris, stopping at three junctions to open fire upon people on café and restaurant terraces.

He grew up in Molenbeek, was involved in petty crime and ran a café-bar, Café Les Béguines, which was a centre for drug dealing and Islamic State propaganda.

[1] Three gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked the Bataclan theatre on 13 November 2015 using AKMs and taking hostages.

All three were French nationals who had travelled to Syria in 2013 and returned to Europe via the migrant route, being picked up in Hungary in September 2015 by Salah Abdeslam and driven to Brussels, where they stayed in the terrorist cell hideouts until driving to Paris on 12 November.

[27] Ibrahim El Bakraoui (9 October 1986 – 22 March 2016) was a Belgian-Moroccan national who grew up in the Laeken district of Brussels.

[30][31] Abrini (born 27 December 1984)[32] is a Belgian national of Moroccan descent who grew up in Molenbeek and was a childhood friend of Salah Abdeslam.

Arrested 8 April 2016, he admitted to being the "man in a hat" who had been captured on CCTV at the airport alongside the suicide bombers and had fled without detonating his bomb.

On his return to Europe he was collected from Ulm in Germany by Salah Abdeslam and was then involved in preparations for the Paris attacks.

The day after the attacks he fled to Turkey, where he was arrested and charged with belonging to a terrorist organisation and possession of false documents.

He received a five-year sentence, with three years suspended, which he was serving at home with an electronic tag when was arrested on 8 April 2016 in Laeken.

In 2018 he went on trial for his part in the Forest shootout and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the attempted murder of police officers in a terrorist context.

[16][17] Belkaid (born 1980) was an Algerian national who had been in Syria and was collected, together with Laachroui, from Hungary by Salah Abdeslam in September 2015.

They had left Syria with the Iraqi Stade de France bombers, but had been delayed in Greece when they were detained for having fake Syrian passports and never reached Brussels.

[42] Darif (born 1992) was a Syrian who was involved in the making of suicide vests in Brussels before returning to Syria, where he was killed in July 2017.

As there was no official confirmation of his death, he was tried in absentia at the Paris attacks trial and sentenced to a full-life term in prison.

Thought to have been killed in Syria in February 2016, he was tried in absentia at the Paris attacks trial and sentenced to a full-life term in prison.

[42] In July 2015, months before the Paris terror attacks, two men named Zakaria Boufassil and Mohammed Ali Ahmed met with Abrini, in a park in Birmingham, United Kingdom.