FBI Director Comey: Paris Terror Attacks Organized in Syria
Weeks after the deadly attack on a Paris concert hall, investigators discover who the third attacker was.
The latest information means that all the attackers identified so far were French or Belgian, all native French speakers.
Paris attacks: Who were the victims?
Several of the group were later arrested upon returning to France in spring past year.
Hailing from Strosbourg, France, the 23-year-old was reportedly recruited to the Middle East by Mourad Fares, who works to recruit young jihadists to join Middle Eastern terror groups. All are charged with terrorism-related offenses. She received a text message saying her son had died as a martyr, and she brought that to police.
The gunman’s mother went to the police after receiving a text message from Syria at the end of last month, her lawyer Francoise Cotta told Agence France-Presse.
After being placed under judicial supervision, he disappeared, with authorities issuing an worldwide arrest warrant.
He said that if he had known “I would have killed him myself beforehand”.
Paris: The father of the third gunman within the assault on the Bataclan live performance corridor in Paris stated Wednesday he would “have killed” his son had he recognized what he was planning.
They were with an unidentified man who apparently carried a fake Syrian passport under the name Ahmad al-Mohammad. The Daesh, also known as ISIL/The Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Two detonated their explosives when police special forces moved in and one was shot by police.
The three French citizens are responsible for a large majority of the 130 deaths that Friday.
His family says they did not know what he was going to do. He said he wanted to die as a suicide bomber in Iraq.
Can Yakup is president of a Turkish cultural centre that he said Mohamed-Aggad visited “once or twice”.
The California artists were on a 32-city European tour promoting their fourth album’s release, “Zipper Down”, but could only perform 11 of those dates before the Paris attacks, after which they canceled the tour and went back to the United States.
RTBF said it was Chouaa who accompanied Abrini to Brussels airport in June while he was heading to Syria.
Federal prosecutors declined to comment on the reports.
Ninety people were killed at the Bataclan in last month’s attacks.