French police said the document was found “near the body of one of the attackers” in the investigation into the main attack of Friday’s carnage, at the Bataclan concert hall, where 82 people were killed.
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Greek journalist Yannis Koutsomitis tweets that the countrys Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection has confirmed that the terrorist found with a Syrian passport on his person was, registered as refugee on Leros island in October.. Lacoere also told CNN that a auto rented in Brussels was found near one of the sites of the attacks in France and “that’s what triggered the raids”.
The Federal Prosecutor’s office will hold a press conference later it the day.
The source said there were no official records showing the man had left Greece, but that authorities believed he may have done so through the border with Macedonia.
The same source said that the gunman’s body had been identified by his fingerprints and that he was from the Courcouronnes suburb south of Paris.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday as French President Francois Hollande vowed a “merciless” response.
It said in an online statement that eight militants armed with explosive belts and guns chose targets “in the capital of adultery and vice”.
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If one or more of the attackers turn out to have come into Europe amongst the migrants arriving from war-torn countries this could change the political and security debate about refugees and what to do with them.
