Third Bataclan attacker identified as Frenchman who had gone to Syria

French police said the third person who launched a deadly attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 13 was a French man who spent time in Syria called Foued Mohamed-Aggad.

“The SMS message told her that her son had died, saying: ‘He died on November 13 with his brothers”, said Francoise Cotta, lawyer for the mother and her family.

So far, all of the identified Paris attackers were Europeans trained by Islamic State extremists.

His journey did not quite go to plan, Le Monde says, as Mohamed-Aggad missed his flight in December 2013, leaving others waiting for him in Turkey.

“I can’t believe it was him”, said Yazar Mesut, a 46-year-old neighbour, speaking in one of the town’s bars.

Two out of the three terrorists that stormed Bataclan had been identified by the authorities in the days following the attacks. Mohamed-Aggad’s father Said told a Parisian paper, according to the AP.

Mohamed-Aggad was part of a group that traveled to Syria in 2013 as part of a radicalization movement.

Eagles of Death Metal, the group that was playing at the Bataclan the night of the attacks, returned to the Bataclan for the first time yesterday, according to NBC News.

He vanished, with authorities issuing a global arrest warrant after being put under judicial oversight.

AFP reports that he was identified last week after French police matched DNA left at the scene to that of members of his family.

Media speculates that Mohamed-Aggad was recruited my Mourad Fares, who was known for recruiting Frenchmen for jihadist groups in Syria.

All three gunmen who attacked the place wearing suicide vests are verified as French nationals.

“What kind of human being could do what he did?” he asked.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed that “the name being circulated” was correct.

The attacks in Paris’ Bataclan theater were the bloodiest of the evening with 89 people losing their lives and over 200 others injured in the onslaught.

Two others who blew themselves up at the music venue have been identified as Frenchmen Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, and Samy Amimour, 28.

They claimed to have gone to Syria for humanitarian work but prosecutors believe they were part of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which claimed responsibility for the carnage in Paris.

The attacker’s father said that he last saw him two years ago before his son went to Syria.