Bataclan Bomber Was in Syria in 2013

Most of the others were arrested in spring a year ago upon their return to France but Aggad stayed on in Syria, the source said.

THE third gunman who terrorised Paris’ Bataclan concert hall before being killed last month in the attack was identified Wednesday as a Frenchman who left for Syria in 2013.

The two other bombers have been identified as Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, from Chartres, southwest of Paris, and Samy Amimour, 28, from Drancy, northeast of Paris. He is now in prison awaiting trial on terror charges. He was flagged as a radical, according to his mother, but a warrant was not put out for his arrest.

An attacker who was killed during a police raid November 18 is still unidentified, and two of the suicide bombers who detonated their vests at the French national stadium were carrying Syrian passports that are believed to be fake, rendering their identification challenging as well.

French media say that Mohamed Aggad was recruited by Mourad Fares, a guy known to have recruited young Frenchmen in Syria on behalf of jihadist groups. He said he “would have killed him beforehand” had he known of the plot.

The family’s lawyer, Francoise Cotta, said: “The SMS message told her that her son had died, saying: “He died on November 13 with his brothers”.

Mohamed-Aggad was a French native who left the country to go to Syria in 2013 where he trained with Islamic State extremists.

After getting the text message, his mother was “terror-struck by the idea that he could have been one of the suicide attackers at the Bataclan” so she went straight to the police, the lawyer said.

He says what makes Mohamed-Aggad slightly different is that he appears to have spent longer than the others in Syria.

One Paris attacker still remains to be identified.

The third man who unleashed carnage at the Bataclan club in Paris last month has been identified.

His father, Said, said that the family was devastated.

In the past few hours, a picture has emerged of who Mohamed-Aggad was, and how he found himself acting on behalf of the so-called Islamic State (IS).

The jihadists were detained by French authorities in May 2014 and imprisoned, while Aggad remained free, eventually becoming part of the suicide bombers of the Paris attacks. He said he was going on holiday two years ago and he went to Syria.

His father, Said, and mother, who was originally from Morocco, separated in 2007, according to Le Parisien.