Passport near Paris attacker came through Serbia

The authorities in Belgrade said they will continue cooperating with the security services in France over the attack and potential suspects.

Both were thought to have registered in Greece, the main entry point into Europe for Syrian refugees.

Yet yesterday, European Commission PresidentJean-Claude Juncker defended the line that “there is no need for an overall review of the European policy on refugees”.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday as French President Francois Hollande vowed a “merciless” response.

Seven gunmen, all of whom were wearing suicide vests packed with explosives, died in the multiple assaults.

The name of one of the attackers has been released, 29-year-old Omar Mostefai.

The only other named member of the network so far is also French, Belgian-born, and still on the run. Molins said the man had a security file for Islamist radicalisation, adding that he had a criminal record but had never spent time in jail. A severed finger. A auto traced back to Belgium.

Mouzalas told a news conference the man had arrived alongside 198 refugees on a boat from Turkey.

The Serbian Interior Ministry said on Sunday that the Paris attack suspect requested asylum in the southern Serbian town of Presevo near the border with Macedonia on October 7 on his way to western Europe.

“Checks have confirmed that his details match those of the person who on October 3 was identified in Greece”. Ms. Merkel has been the strongest voice in Europe for opening the door to those fleeing war and conflict and who deserve protection under worldwide law. Then he delivered a direct message to European politicians linking refugees to terrorism: “I would like to invite them to be serious about this and not to give in to these basic reactions”.

There was “no need to review the whole European refugee policy”, he told G20 leaders in Turkey, dismissing those with fears about migrants as having “basic reactions”.

The attacks sent shockwaves around the world, with London’s Tower Bridge, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and the World Trade Center in NY among the many landmarks lit up in the red, white and blue of the French national flag in a show of solidarity.

About 1,500 Syrians have been admitted to the United States since the war started, according to us officials in September.

He said such attacks will “only result (in) a new wave of refugees”. In response to the tragedy, a state of emergency has been declared in France, and the country’s borders have been closed.

US President Barack Obama described the onslaught as “an attack on all of humanity” and an emotional Pope Francis said he was “shaken” by the “inhuman” attacks. Otherwise, he says, “we will only fan the fire we are trying to put out”.

Authorities said three teams of attackers were involved in the gun and bomb attacks on the stadium, a concert hall and Paris cafes. In all, 129 people were killed in Paris in the violence, the worst in France in decades.

Meanwhile, Germany’s foreign ministry says one of its citizens was killed in Friday’s attacks in Paris.

It comes as more information emerges about the eight assailants responsible for a string of attacks in the French capital that left at least 127 people dead.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday insisted that the refugees fleeing Syria “are hunted by the same terrorists” that struck in Paris on Friday.

A Syrian passport has been found near the body of one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up on Friday near a Paris soccer stadium, sources close the investigation of the deadly attacks in Paris said.

“We announce that the passport holder had passed from Leros on October 3. where he was identified based on European Union rules…”

French police questioned on Sunday relatives of one of the suicide attackers who brought carnage to Paris as a row over Europe’s refugee crisis re-ignited, with conservatives demanding an end to “the days of uncontrolled immigration”.

Syrians have also reported losing their documents in muggings or scams during the arduous trek across Europe, so the passport could potentially have arrived in Greece with one man and in Paris with another.