French Interior minister Manuel Valls says the third suicide bomber who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 13 has been identified.
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Mohamed-Aggad reportedly travelled to Syria with his brother and other radicalised youths from Strasbourg in late 2013. She received a text message saying her son had died as a martyr, and she brought that to police.
The news that the attacker hails from France is further confirmation that the majority of the assailants on November 13, 2015 were European citizens trained by the Islamic State group in Syria.
But Aggad stayed on in Syria, the police source said. “If I had known he would have done something like that, I would have killed him beforehand”.
A radio reporter who attended the Bataclan concert described the attackers there as calm and determined, telling CNN they reloaded their weapons three or four times.
Le Parisien, according to NBC News, was told by Mohamed-Aggad’s father Said that he was devastated by his son’s decision to participate in the Bataclan attacks.
The three suicide bombers stormed the Bataclan music hall during a concert by US rock band “Eagles of Death Metal”, killing 90 people.
He vanished, with authorities issuing a global arrest warrant after being put under judicial oversight. At least two of the attackers carried false Syrian passports, and at least one major figure in the plot is still on the run. He was identified at the end of last week after his DNA was matched with that of members of his family, the source added.
One other Paris attacker remains to be identified.
Police suspect the Strasbourg group was recruited by Mourad Fares, a 31-year-old Frenchman considered a key online recruiter for the Islamic State (ISIS) group who was arrested in August 2014 in Turkey and handed over to French authorities.
The other two Bataclan gunmen have been identified as Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, 29, and Samy Amimour, 28. He said he was going on holiday two years ago but he went to Syria.
According to Christian Mahler, who lived on the same floor in the building near Wissembourg station where the family lived for a time, Mohamed-Aggad began frequenting the Mosque more often around 2012.
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“What kind of human being would do what he did?” his father told reporters on Wednesday.
