One of suspects in Paris attacks registered on arrival in Croatia
Though he has never been linked to terrorism, he has been under watch since 2010 for becoming “radicalized”, according to the French national prosecutor.
There is no European consensus on whether to use more force against Islamic State strongholds, and no consensus on how to cope with the arrival of so many people seeking a better life in Europe.
A few countries have told them to stay out. The auto was taken away after the guns had been removed.
Syrians have also reported losing their documents in muggings or scams during the arduous trek across Europe, so the passport could potentially have arrived in Greece with one man and in Paris with another. ISIS claimed responsibility for the collection of killings, which French President Francois Hollande described as an “act of war”.
Seven gunmen, all of whom were wearing suicide vests packed with explosives, died in the multiple assaults.
Another accomplice at Bataclan was Omar Ismael Mostefai, who lived in Chartres, about 60 miles from Paris, at least until 2012, local lawmaker Jean-Pierre Gorge wrote on Facebook.
A Turkish government official said Ankara had notified France twice in December 2014 and June 2015 about Mostefai, who entered Turkey in 2013 with no record of him leaving again. He was identified through tests on his severed finger.
A spokeswoman for the Croatian interior ministry said the man was registered in the country’s Opatovac refugee camp on October 8 and from there he crossed into Hungary and then Austria. She said the fingerprints on the passport matched the bomber’s, citing an unnamed French senator who was briefed by the Interior Ministry.
The attacks have reignited a row within the European Union on how to handle the flood of asylum seekers from Syria and other countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Juncker urged them “to be serious about this, and not to give in (to) these basic reactions I don’t like”. Indeed, like 9/11, the knock-on effects of the terror attack on Paris that’s left 129 dead are likely to play out for a long time.
“Let this be clear to everyone, this is just the beginning, these actions are going to continue”, Cazeneuve said. “Paris changes everything”, Markus Soeder, a Bavarian finance minister, was quoted as telling news outlets. “No one can know for certain where they come from, their true identity or if their documents are genuine”, Serbian Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin said.
France was the first European state to join USA air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq in September 2014, while a year later it extended its air strikes to Syria.
“It was not actually on the terrorist’s body, or what remained of it. It was lying nearby, as if meant to be found”.
But “after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them”, he said.
Commenting on the crisis, French Ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann said it is “obvious” Europe needs to strengthen security in its external borders.
President Joachim Gauck began his speech Sunday by remembering those killed in the Paris attacks and pledging solidarity with the people of France.
And five people have been arrested in raids in Belgium connected to the Paris attacks, Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told CNN.
“Those who organized, who perpetrated the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing and not the opposite”, Juncker said. He spoke on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation. However, it is still unknown whether the passport that was recovered from the dead body was real or fake.
In recent days the inflows have been modest, with only a couple hundred people arriving a day.
“Our demand and our will is that the migrant and refugee influx from Turkey to Greece should be monitored on the ground”.
Poland’s incoming government leaders declared Saturday that they would not accept refugees without security guarantees.
Within two days he had apparently passed through northern Greece to Macedonia, and reached the border crossing with Serbia.
Likewise, French judicial sources said alMohammad was not known to French anti-terror services.