Also Sunday, French Police issued an arrest warrant for a Belgian man, Abdeslam Salah, who is believed to be the brother of a terrorist who died in the attacks.
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Asked if the owner of the Syrian passport which was found at the site of the attack in Paris had passed through Croatia, Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojić said: “At this time and immediately after the attack, our security system is sharing all useful information with our colleagues from France, as well as with Interpol and Europol, and numerous security agencies”.
The Greek Minister for Citizen Protection, Mr Nikos Toskas, said in a statement that one of the men had been registered on the Greek island of Leros last month.
On 3 October, a man using the name Ahmed Almohamed arrived on the small Greek island of Leros and registered as a refugee with the Syrian passport.
In Serbia, a few 490,000 migrants have passed through this year, and many say they don’t have documents – making it impossible to check for terrorist connections or criminal histories, to verify their backgrounds, Serbian officials said Sunday.
The two others who detonated themselves at the stadium carried false Turkish passports, the French senator said.
In Syria, residents and activists joined the global outcry over the carnage in Paris.
French media cited local residents as saying he had been influenced by a visiting radical Imam from Belgium in 2010, the same year that the Paris prosecutor said his security file for Islamist radicalisation was created. “It was established that his details matched those of a person registered in Greece on October 3”, the Serbian interior ministry said in a statement.
European Union President Donald Tusk says signs have emerged that attacks on moderate opposition forces in Syria are creating a new flood of refugees.
Authorities across Europe continue to probe the identity of seven assailants amid questions over how they managed to co-ordinate multiple attacks, which have since been claimed by the Islamic State group, without attracting the attention of security services.
Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley said there’s no better nation to adapt to the new face of conflict and warfare than the U.S. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called ISIS a barbarous organization.
If the passport or fingerprints match the attackers, it would mean they used refugee status to enter Europe from Syria, heightening concerns that ISIS members are using this method in order to cross borders.
“We have a series of European partners that have completely different policies, be it on terrorists or organised crime”, he said.
In September, Pope Francis warned of the possibility of militants hiding among refugees. “So there is a danger of infiltration, this is true”, The Telegraph reported. The person responsible for the attacks in Paris can not be put on equal footing with real refugees, with asylum seekers and with displaced people. “This I think is not going to influence our trip in any way”. One Facebook group, Labour Party Exposed, accused politicians, including the Green MP Caroline Lucas and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who had held up signs reading “refugees welcome” of having “blood on their hands”.
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‘I would like to invite those in Europe who are trying to change the migration agenda we have adopted – I would like to invite them to be serious about this and not to give in to these basic reactions.
