French officials said he traveled from Strasbourg to Syria with other radicalized young people in 2013.
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“Without the mother, there would have been nothing”, said the lawyer, Francoise Cotta.
Aggad’s mother played a crucial role in the identification process.
Foued is believed to have travelled to Syria with a group of other radicals, including his brother, in 2013.
The ISIS-claimed attacks at multiple locations across Paris killed 130 people and injured over 300.
The other two attackers, Omar Ismail Mostefai and Samy Amimour, were also French.
Foued Mohamed-Aggad was from a small town near Strasbourg, BFMTV and France 2 reported.
If he’d found out, Said Mohamed-Aggad said he wouldn’t have let his son join the ranks of attackers who unleashed carnage at the Bataclan theater in Paris last month.
Police suspect the Strasbourg group was recruited by Mourad Fares, a 31-year-old Frenchman considered a key online recruiter for the Islamic State group who was arrested in August 2014 in Turkey and handed over to French authorities.
Le Parisien newspaper named him as Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23, from Strasbourgin northeastern France. Mohamed-Aggad chose to stay in Syria, but it remains unclear when and how he went back to France. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described him as a “particularly unsafe individual close to jihadist terrorist movements” including the so-called Islamic State (IS).
Amimour also spent time in Syria, as did the presumed ringleader of the November 13 attackers, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, a Belgian of Moroccan origin who died in a police raid the following week.
Meanwhile, France urged its European Union partners on Tuesday to speed up efforts to cut off funds to extremists groups, almost a month after the Paris attacks. “If I had known he would have done something like that, I would have killed him beforehand”. “All three attackers died during the assault”. None of the reports on Mohamed-Aggad’s background indicate that he held a job before leaving for Syria.
Two of the gunmen blew themselves up with suicide belts packed with explosives after the Bataclan attack.
“What kind of human being would do what he did?” his father told reporters on Wednesday.
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