I only found out this morning. “I have to tug myself collectively”.
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“I would have killed him myself beforehand”, he said.
Islamic State (Isis) jihadists sent a “martyr text message” to the mother of one of the Bataclan jihadists, which said that “he died with his brothers”.
“The SMS message told her that her son had died, saying: “He died on November 13 with his brothers”, said the family’s lawyer, Francoise Cotta. Cotta said that the mother then asked her to alert the authorities and that a DNA match was made.
“The more identities that they can find, the more that the police can start to draw a broader net to try to establish the connection”, she said.
The two others who blew themselves up at the music venue were identified as Frenchmen Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, and Samy Amimour, 28. An attacker who was killed during a police raid November 18 is still unidentified, and two of the suicide bombers who detonated their vests at the French national stadium were carrying Syrian passports that are believed to be fake, rendering their identification challenging as well. All were French nationals.
The French newspaper Le Parisien reported Wednesday that the attacker was 23-year-old Foued Mohamed-Aggad of Strasbourg, France.
The official, who requested anonymity to reveal details of the investigation, said the mother received the text in English.
The BBC’s Hugh Schofield in Paris says we can now be comfortably sure that Mostefai, Amimour, Mohamed-Aggad, Bilal Hadfi and suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud had all travelled to Syria.
He was known to French anti-terror services and had a police record in Strasbourg, network France 2 said.
One of the woman’s other sons, who has returned from Syria, faces terrorism-related charges.
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When questioned on their return, the remaining members claimed they had been horrified by what they had witnessed in Syria and had begun returning gradually to France from February 2014. 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. Meanwhile, Belgian Salah Abdeslam, whose brother Brahim blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire café is still at large. The man believed to have recruited them, Mourad Fares, is also in custody.
