Second Paris attacker likely to have crossed Greece: government sources

A Greek police source on Saturday said Athens had forwarded to French authorities the fingerprints of the passport holder registered on Leros in October, to check whether he was the man involved in Friday’s attacks.

The Syrian passport was registered in October in Serbia and Croatia, two of the countries on the corridor crossing the Balkans.

“It has been established that his data matches the data of a person who on October 3 was identified in Greece. There was no Interpol warrant issued against this person”, the statement added.

As the probe into the assault spread across Europe, French police released a photograph of a “dangerous” suspect wanted over the attacks.

“Most of (the attackers) were born and raised in Western countries… they leave Western countries with legal Western passports, go to jihad and return”.

Officials denied, though, that a second attacker had taken a similar route, telling the Guardian there was “no indication whatsoever” that the assailant had entered Europe through Greece.

And now, Poland says it’s closing its doors to refugees and calling for a revision to the EU’s current refugee policy.

However, there is no official confirmation the holder of the passport and the individual who attacked the French stadium are the same man.

Tim Ramadan, who works with the group “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”, said a fighter using the nom-de-guerre Abu Ibrahim al-Belgi – “father of Ibrahim, from Belgium” – was speaking to a “commander” who gave the orders for an attack. The comments came amid widening investigations into the attacks that killed 129 people in the French capital on Friday.

He is one of seven militants who died in the slaughter, blowing himself up at the Bataclan musical hall, the bloodiest of Friday’s attacks. His name was Omar Mostefai and while he had a criminal record – he never spent time in jail.

Likewise, French judicial sources said alMohammad was not known to French anti-terror services.

A passport found near the body of one attackers belonged to a Syrian asylum seeker who entered Europe through Greece, according to news reports.

“We are at war”.

“Because we are at war we will take exceptional measures”. We will act and we will hit them.

The document’s discovery amid the bloodied aftermath of multiple bombings at the Stade de France was seized on by opponents of Europe’s refugee resettlement scheme as an urgent argument in favour of tighter border controls.

It had already scheduled to send an aircraft carrier to the region later this month.

Any trail of registration or fingerprints would probably end in Germany or Austria, where most refugees request to stay or from where they try to slip away to other countries in which they have relatives or friends staying unofficially.

He was flagged up as a potential security threat in 2010 after being radicalised in Chartres, a cathedral town south-west of Paris, reportedly by a Belgian imam. A Belgian vehicle was seen near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, according to witness accounts.

German police arrested a man on November 5 after machine-guns, hand guns and explosives were found in his vehicle during a routine check on a motorway. One of the suicide bombers has been identified from a finger recovered at the site.

France had been on high alert since Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January, killing 18 people.

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front party, called for authorities to expel immigrants who are in the country illegally. Until this is confirmed, the hypothesis that a few attackers are still at large can not be ruled out.