Mohamed-Aggad’s mother apparently received a text message during the night of the attack on the Bataclan that proclaimed her son’s death as a “martyr”, according to NBC News.
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Mohamed-Aggad’s father, Said, said he only found out about his son’s involvement in the attacks through the media and that if he knew, he “would have killed him beforehand, “according to Le Parisien”.
“I can’t believe it was him”, said Yazar Mesut, a 46-year-old neighbour, speaking in one of the town’s bars.
French authorities have identified a third suspect in the Paris attack at the Bataclan theater last month.
Mohamed-Aggad went to Syria in 2013 with his brother and some friends.
Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes, right, and Julian Dorio, kneeling, pay their respects to the 89 victims who died in a November 13 major extremist attack, at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.
Police suspect the Strasbourg group had been recruited by Mourad Fares, a 31-year-old Frenchman considered a key online recruiter for IS, who was arrested in August 2014 in Turkey before being handed over to French authorities.
All three attackers, who were wearing suicide vests, died.
It was also hard because of the lack of physical remains, but French police used DNA samples and compared them to Mohamed-Aggad’s family.
Mohamed-Aggad was shot by police when they stormed the Bataclan.
Mohamed-Aggad was known to French anti-terrorism services and had a police record in Strasbourg, France 2 reported.
The names of the first two killers at the concert venue were Ismail Omar Mostefai, 29, a French-national and Samy Amimour, 28, born in Paris.
Cotta also told The Associated Press that Mohamed-Aggad was flagged as a radical, but there was no warrant for his arrest.
Almost 1,500 people were watching the Californian band Eagles of Death Metal play at the Bataclan when the gunmen burst in last month, leaving 90 dead and hundreds hurt, mostly people aged under 40. The California artists were on a 32-city European tour promoting their fourth album’s release, “Zipper Down”, but could only perform 11 of those dates before the Paris attacks, after which they canceled the tour and went back to the United States.
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They were with an unidentified man who apparently carried a fake Syrian passport under the name Ahmad al-Mohammad. While his brother Karim returned, Aggad allegedly remained behind in Syria until returning to Paris to take part in the November 13 attacks.
