Another 29-year-old Algerian Adel Haddadi is also facing the same charges as these are the suspected members of the same Islamic State cell that wrecked havoc in France last year.
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The French newspaper Le Monde reported that two men travelled together from Syria to the Greek island Leros with two Iraqi brothers who blew themselves up near the Stade de France stadium outside Paris on 13 November 2015.
Once let go, they followed the main migrant trail and made it to Salzburg in western Austria at the end of November-after the Paris attacks.
Haddadi and Usman had been detained by Greek authorities for 25 days because they had fake Syrian passports.
Austria handed over to France two alleged jihadists on suspicion they planned to take part in last year’s Paris attacks, an Austrian prosecution spokesman said Friday. Austrian police arrested them at a refugee shelter in the city on December 10.
The men were arrested in December in Austria.
Two other men, Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini, have since been arrested and are awaiting trial for their part in the attacks.
Haddadi allegedly told cops he wanted to go to France to “carry out a mission”.
People pray, place flowers and light candles in tribute for the victims of the 13 November Paris attacks.
Usman is thought to be a bomb maker for Pakistani extremist cults such as Lashkar-e-Taiba which is linked to al-Qaeda.
“Both suspects have now left the country”, prosecutors said in a statement on Friday.
The Pakistani unsuccessfully appealed his transfer from Austria to France.
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The men’s transfer to France was carried out under a European arrest warrant issued by France, the Austrian prosecutors’ office said.
