In all, 130 people died in the November 13 attacks on Paris, with the worst of the carnage at the Bataclan.
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Cotta said his mother offered the sample herself.
French police have finally identified the third Bataclan theatre attacker, almost a month after the massacre in Paris.
But the Bataclan was by far the deadliest attack.
Mohamed-Aggad left Strasbourg for Syria in December 2013, a French judicial official said, at a time when about a dozen young men from the eastern French city headed to the war zone.
Other members of the group, but not the Bataclan bomber, were arrested and imprisoned in May 2014 after their return. Mourad Fares, the Frenchman believed to have recruited them, was arrested.
Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23, of Strasbourg, France, has been identified as the third Bataclan gunman.
The French newspaper Le Parisien, says it has been told be “reliable sources” that Mohamed-Aggad had later returned to France. “If I had known he would have done something like that, I would have killed him beforehand”.
Police have now identified five of them.
It was a hard process to identify the suicide bombers, as many re-entered with fake names, posing as Syrian refugees.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed that “the name being circulated” was correct.
The Bataclan was stormed by the three guys during an Eagles of Death Metal rock group. concert by the They opened fire on concertgoers, before cops began to reach the scene repeatedly reloading their firearms. Two of the gunmen killed themselves by detonating suicide vests and the third was fatally shot by police.
One other Paris attacker remains to be identified.
Philippe Leloup, the lawyer for the man in prison in Namur, said his client “formally denied having received the call from Abdeslam”.
One report last year said the area was once known as a no-go area, but had improved in recent years.
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He was placed under provisional detention in France and will be prosecuted for a sequence of terrorism-related offences in Syria and France.
Mr Mohamed Aggad said he had not spoken to his son for “at least five months” before the attacks, saying that the 23-year-old had been lying to the family for sometime about his activities. 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.
“The final time I noticed him was two years in the past when he left”.
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Wissembourg council and the Strasbourg prosecutor would not comment on Youssef’s claims.
