A Greek police source said the passport’s owner was a young man who had arrived in Leros on a small vessel from Turkey with a group of 69 refugees and had his fingerprints taken by Greek officials.
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“It’s a problem”, says Ghaled, who urged against victimising his countrymen, saying the attackers “are not Syrians”.
Investigators have so far identified five of seven gunmen and suicide bombers whose bodies were found at three sites across the city, while the hunt is on for an eighth gunman who is believed to be on the run. Muhammad moved to Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia where he registered in the Opatovac refugee camp.
“Will on Sunday night’s attacks in Paris affect our lives as refugees?” asks one user on Bus Stop for the Lost Ones, a Facebook page popular among Arabic-speaking migrants taking the Balkan route to Europe.
“Those who organized, who perpetrated the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing and not the opposite”, Juncker said.
Any trail of registration or fingerprints would probably end in Germany or Austria, where most refugees request to stay, or from where they try to slip away to other countries in which they have relatives or friends staying unofficially.
The passport “appeared to be fake”, a United States intelligence analyst told CBS, because it had the wrong number of digits.
In April of this year, just before the British General Election, UKIP leader Nigel Farage travelled to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to warn that ISIS and its sympathisers would try to find their way to European soil to commit terrorist attacks. The individual reportedly entered Europe among a wave of refugees in Greece before traveling to France.
“The open door policy of having migrants come to Europe leaves the door wide open to attacks by terrorists”, said retiree Jack Parker, 65, a long-time British resident of Paris.
European security officials now fear that terrorists affiliated with IS are embedding themselves into the masses of refugees migrating to Europe, according to CNN.
“So I would advise that we be cautious about mixing the idea of terror with refugees”, she said.
CAREFULLY shielding a lit candle against the cold pouring rain, Syrian refugee Ghaled, 22, had come to the French embassy in Berlin to pay tribute to victims of the Paris attacks.
Authorities say 42 are still in intensive care.
But his passport had not made it into the ambulance with him and soon after it was discovered, the French newspaper Le Point claimed – in a report that since appears to have been taken down – that he was one of the attackers. Greek government sources said a second suspect attacker was also likely to have passed through Greece.
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“No charges have been directed at Abdel-Razzak at all”, Badawi was quoted saying by the Egyptian newspaper Ahram Online.
