On their liveblog, The Guardian notes that forged Syrian passports are hot commodities on the black market.
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European security officials had long feared that jihadists could take advantage of the mass migration influx, mainly from war-torn Syria, that Europe has been experiencing since the beginning of the year.
Greek authorities had said on Saturday the passport matched that used by a refugee who arrived on the Greek island of Leros on October 3.
Three Greek government sources later said a second suspect was also very likely to have come into Europe through Greece, adding that an investigation was still under way.
Nearly 90 people were killed at a rock concert at the Bataclan concert hall.
There have been other reports that a Syrian passport found near one of the attackers was fake.
Two of the terrorists are believed to have been carrying Syrian passports, while another may have had a Egyptian passport.
One of the suicide bombers who targeted Paris was a young Frenchman flagged in the past for links with an Islamic extremist activity.
Reports suggested two of the attackers were Belgian. Investigators have traced his journey back to France through Turkey, Le Monde reported. The BBC recently confirmed that three arrests had been made in Brussels. “There were arrests relating to the search of the vehicle and person who rented it”, Geen said. Islamic State earlier on Saturday distributed an undated video threatening to attack France if bombings of its fighters continued.
The strikes across Paris left 129 people dead and 352 injured.
Syrian peace talksPeace talks to end the Syrian civil war had drifted along for years before a snowballing refugee crisis in Europe this summer and Russia’s dramatic entry into the conflict in September gave them new urgency.
The statement mocked France’s involvement in airstrikes on suspected ISIS bases in Syria and Iraq, noting France’s air power was “of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris”. France’s President Hollande said his country will be ruthless in both home and overseas to contain the terrorists.
‘A group of believers from the soldiers of the Caliphate (may Allah strengthen and support it) set out targeting the capital of prostitution and vice…Paris, ‘ said the group in a statement. It referenced the stadium, and the Bataclan, where an American rock band was playing, and said “hundreds of apostates were attending an adulterous party”.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the multiple attacks across the capital – and has warned that France would remain at the “top of the list of targets” over its airstrikes on IS territory in Syria and Iraq. Witnesses described one attacker as “white”, “European type” according to BFMtv.
