Police had no idea who he was, until Aggad’s mother got a text message from Syria saying her son had been killed on November 13, the day of the attacks. The other two bombers were previously identified as Samy Amimour from Drancy and Ismaël Omar Mostefaï from Chartres.
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Foued Aggad, a 23-year-old French citizen, left in 2013 to join ISIS in Syria.
Mohamed-Aggad’s father, Said, told Le Parisien that he had only learned of his son’s role in the Bataclan massacre through the media and “would have killed him beforehand” if he had known that he would go on to carry out such an attack.
The news that the attacker hails from France is further confirmation that the majority of the assailants on November 13, 2015 were European citizens trained by the Islamic State group in Syria.
Then she gave French police a DNA sample which showed that one of her sons was killed inside the Bataclan, his brother’s lawyer said. The Bataclan attackers stormed the concert venue together, carrying guns and grenades and wearing suicide vests.
French authorities have identified a third suspect in the Paris attack at the Bataclan theater last month.
Aggad, who died in the assault, had travelled to war-torn Syria with his brother and a group of friends at the end of 2013, according to a police source close to the investigation yesterday.
Authorities have confirmed that French-national of Moroccan origin, Foued Mohamed-Aggad was the third killer in the Bataclan carnage. All three gunmen were killed in the attack. Fares had been arrested previous year in Turkey and is being prosecuted for offenses relating to terrorism in Syria and France, according to BBC News.
In Mohamed-Aggad’s home town of Wissembourg, about 70 km north of Strasbourg and near the German border, some people who knew him were surprised to learn of his role.
French police have identified the third attacker who blew himself up at the Bataclan during the Paris attacks, officials say.
Most of the group from Strasbourg who went to Syria with him were arrested on their return to the city in May 2014 and are all still being held on terror charges. Two of the terrorists are believed to have used fake Syrian passports to travel back to France.
“What kind of human being could do what he did?” he asked.
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“I have no words, I only found out this morning”, he said.
