Foued Mohamed-Aggad, third Bataclan bomber, traveled to Syria in 2013
A further 40 people were killed in a string of coordinated attacks in and around Paris on the same evening. The other Bataclan attackers were previously named as Samy Amimour and Ismail Omar Mostefai, both from France.
Investigators believe two brothers from the group of attackers, Mourad and Yassine Boudjellal, were killed fighting with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
France’s Agence France Presse identified the 23-year-old man as Fouad Mohamed Aggad, from the French city of Strasbourg. The rest of the group that had gone to Syria were arrested upon their return to France. When asked to confirm the name, Prime Minister Manuel Valls stated that “he has been identified”, but “it is not up to me” to discuss the specifics of the investigation, according to the New York Times. Cotta said that Mohamed-Aggad was flagged as a radical but that there was no warrant for his arrest.
Following the attacks, France declared a state of emergency for three months, which may be extended for up to six months.
All three gunmen who attacked the venue wearing suicide vests have been confirmed as French nationals.
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.
According to CNN, Aggad’s 25-year-old brother is being held in prison.
If he’d found out, Said Mohamed-Aggad said, he wouldn’t have let his son join the attackers.
“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, who said the woman got the text message 10 days ago.
However, there is still identification work for the police to do before being certain about the nationalities of the attackers.
“What kind of human being could do what he did?” he asked. “If I had known he would have done something like that, I would have killed him beforehand”.
Counting the cost… A victim of a terrorist attack lies dead outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris.
Besides the Bataclan attackers, police have established that Bilal Hadfi, 20-year-old French national, and M.al-Mahmod, had blown themselves up at Stade de France.
Almost 1,500 people were watching Californian band Eagles of Death Metal play at the Bataclan when the gunmen opened fire.