French Authorities Learn More About Paris Attacker

A third gunman involved in last month’s massacre at a Paris concert hall was identified Wednesday as a Frenchman who had visited Syria, with his father saying he “would have killed him” if he had known his plans.

French national Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23, had travelled to war-torn Syria with his brother, Karim, and a group of friends from the eastern French city of Strasbourg at the end of 2013, police sources said.

Mohamed-Aggad’s mother received a text message notifying her that her son had died around 10 days ago. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.

“Every time, I was expecting what someone would tell me he died in a bombing…I would have preferred that he died there, rather than here”, said the attacker’s father, Said Mohamed-Aggad, as quoted by Le Parisien.

The France 2 network says he was known to police in Strasbourg, but only for petty crimes.

The suicide bomber joined the so-called Islamic State in Syria in 2013, along with his brother and ten other young men who were radicalized and recruited by the terrorist organization.

“I would have killed him beforehand”, he said in an interview with French media that aired on CNN affiliate BFMTV. Up until today, two out of three of the bodies of bombers associated with the Bataclan and Paris attacks had been identified, with Aggad’s being the mystery.

In all, 130 people died during the terror attacks in Paris November 13.

Two of the gunmen blew themselves up with suicide belts full of explosives after the Bataclan assault.

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Cotta said Mohamed-Aggad had told his family months ago that he did not intend to return to France and was going to be a suicide bomber in Iraq.

Without giving a name, authorities confirmed Wednesday that the last Bataclan attacker had been identified, and the lawyer later said he was Foued Mohamed-Aggad.

The other two attackers at the concert hall have been named as Samy Amimour, 28, from Drancy, north east of Paris, and Ismail Omar Mostefai, 29, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who lived for a time in Chartres, south west of Paris.

Salah Abdeslam, 26, who police say rented cars and hotel rooms to help in the attacks, is still on the run.

File imagoe of the Paris terror attacks. Their suspected recruiter for the Islamic Statealso is under arrest in France.