A 23-year-old man from Strasbourg, eastern France, has been identified as the third attacker involved in the terrorist assault at the Bataclan music hall in Paris, police sources have said.
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Foued Mohamed Aggad went to Syria with his brother and about a dozen friends from his Strasbourg neighbourhood of Meinau in 2013, according to David Thomson, an expert on jihadi groups at FRANCE 24’s sister radio station, RFI.
“He died on the November 13 with his brothers”, the message read, said the mother’s lawyer, Francoise Cotta.
Philippe Leloup, the lawyer for the man in prison in Namur, said his client “formally denied having received the call from Abdeslam”.
So far, all attackers were French or Belgian and were native French speakers. The other Bataclan attackers were previously named as Samy Amimour and Ismail Omar Mostefai, both from France.
After being placed under judicial supervision, he disappeared, with authorities issuing an global arrest warrant.
A 23-year-old Frenchmen has been identified as one of the gunmen killed in the attack on the Bataclan theater in Paris. The attacks are suspected to have been masterminded by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis on November 18. Fares had been arrested past year in Turkey and is being prosecuted for offenses relating to terrorism in Syria and France, according to BBC News.
After DNA samples were verified to fit with members of his family, he was identified by authorities, AFP reports.
Police have been working to identify all the assailants, but it has been a painstaking process because some traveled under false names and, in some cases, their bodies were badly damaged after they detonated the explosives they were wearing.
All three of the Bataclan attackers died after the incident, two by suicide vest detonation and one by gunfire from French police.
The three French citizens are responsible for a large majority of the 130 deaths that Friday.
His father, Said, said that the family was devastated.
All claimed to have gone to do humanitarian work, but prosecutors believe they meant to fight for Isis, which claimed responsibility for the carnage in Paris. Two suicide bombers who attacked at the national stadium carried Syrian passports that are thought to be false.
The source said the prisoner, who was jailed for a common law crime, is not implicated in the gun and suicide bombing attacks in the French capital.
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“I would have killed him beforehand”, he said in an interview with French media that aired on CNN affiliate BFMTV. It was there, the newspaper says, that the group of 10, including Karim, plotted their journey to Syria.
