'If I had known... I would have killed him': Father of third Batalcan terrorist asks 'what kind of human could do what he did' after discovering his son was one of the Paris attackers
- Third man involved in the slaughter is named as Foued Mohamed Aggad
- 23-year-old, from Strasbourg, eastern France, 'travelled to Syria in 2013'
- Aggad identified last week after DNA was matched with family members
- His mother is now in custody after her flat was raided by police overnight
- See full coverage of the Paris attacks at www.dailymail.co.uk/ParisAttacks
Terrorist: Foued Mohamed Aggad (pictured), 23, of Strasbourg, France, has been named as one of the men who took part in the slaughter on November 13
The father of the third Bataclan theatre terrorist has revealed that he would have killed him if he known he was going to carry out the attack.
Foued Mohamed Aggad, of Strasbourg, France, was named by police yesterday as the 'third suicide bomber' involved in the killings, nearly a month after the slaughter on November 13.
And his father Said Mohamed Abbag told Le Parisien: ‘What kind of human being could do what he did? If I had known he would do something like this, I would have killed him.’
He said their father-son relationship almost disappeared as he became radicalised, saying: 'It was not him, it was another person with whom I spoke. Someone who had been brainwashed.'
Some 90 people were gunned down by ISIS terrorists at the Bataclan music venue as they were watching a performance by the rock group Eagles of Death Metal.
Aggad’s identity was revealed as it emerged that his mother paid for him to return home from Syria before he took part in the attack.
The 23-year-old is understood to have travelled to Syria with his brother and a group of friends at the end of 2013, according to a source close to the probe. Most of the others were arrested in spring last year upon their return to France but Aggad stayed on in Syria, the source said.
Aggad's mother – identified only as Mrs Aggad – was last night in custody after her flat was raided by police commandos overnight. She faces a range of terrorism charges.
Ninety people were gunned down by ISIS terrorists at the music venue as they were watching a performance by the rock group Eagles of Death Metal
Officers have been studying Aggad's remains since November 13.
Like others involved in the worst terrorist attack in French history, Aggad was known to the police, but was apparently given the freedom to travel where he liked.
He was part of a group of young men from a housing estate close to the Meinau football stadium in Strasbourg who were radicalised and then left for Syria in December 2013 to join IS.
Two members of the group died not long after arriving, while seven others returned to France in early 2014 and were imprisoned. They included Aggad's brother, Karim, who is currently in a prison near Paris.
But Aggad himself remained in Syria until returning to take part in the Friday 13 attacks.
Aggad's mother, identified by Le Parisien newspaper as originally coming from Oujda, in the Rif mountains of Morocco, told another son, Karim: 'I had news about him every day. He didn't say what he was actually doing every day, though. He was with his wife in Syria.
Asked about a sum of money she is said to have sent to Syria, Mrs Aggad confirmed it was to 'allow him to come home'.
Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes (right) and Julian Dorio pay their respects to the people who died in the Bataclan slaughter
Mrs Aggad was separated from Aggad's father in 2007. Her flat in Strasbourg was being searched 'from top to bottom', another police source confirmed.
She is said to have received a text message from ISIS in Syria informing her of the death of her son, according to investigating sources.
She cooperated with officers after receiving the text, and this ultimately led to his identification as the third bomber.
The family originally lived in Wissembourg, a small town in the Bas-Rhin department of France. They then moved to Meinau - a suburb of Strasbourg with considerable social problems, especially among its council estates.
Aggad and his fellow Jihadis travelled to Syria via Frankfurt, telling friends they were 'going on holiday to Dubai'.
WHO WERE THE PARIS ATTACKERS: MANY CROSSED OFFICIALS' RADAR
THE MASTERMIND
ABDELHAMID ABAAOUD, 28
French investigators identified Belgian-born Abaaoud of Moroccan descent as the architect of the Paris attacks. A U.S. official briefed on intelligence matters said Abaaoud was a key figure in an ISIS external operations cell that U.S. intelligence agencies have been tracking for months.
Officials initially believed he had coordinated the assaults against the Stade de France stadium, cafes and a rock concert from Syria, but he died during a police raid on a Paris apartment that was a 15-minute walk from the Stade de France.
Abaaoud was also suspected of involvement in several thwarted attacks this year, including on a church in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif, and possibly an attempted attack on a high-speed train when three Americans tackled a heavily armed man.
Abaaoud is believed to have got to know some of the attackers responsible for the Paris massacre in the Moleenbeek neighborhood of Brussels where he grew up.
French investigators identified Belgian-born Abaaoud of Moroccan descent as the architect of the Paris attacks
He had bragged in the ISIS's English-language magazine that he was able to slip in and out of Europe undetected.
Abaaoud was wanted in Belgium, where he was sentenced in absentia this year to 20 years' imprisonment for serving as an ISIS recruiter and kidnapping his younger brother, Younes. Belgian authorities say Abaaoud brought the boy, then 13, to Syria last year to join him in IS-controlled territory.
THE BATACLAN KILLERS
Three suicide bombers - two who blew themselves up and one shot by police - have been identified as targeting concert-goers at the Bataclan music venue:
ISMAEL OMAR MOSTEFAI, 29
Police say Mostefai blew himself up at the theatre. Tall, quiet and conservatively dressed, Mostefai appears to have aroused little suspicion at the housing block he shared with his family in the French cathedral city of Chartres or at the nearby Anoussra Mosque.
French police believe Mostefai travelled to Syria in the past few years.
SAMY AMIMOUR, 28
The Frenchman was charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.
Amimour, who had a short career as a bus driver, had already run into trouble with the law. French officials quizzed him on October 19, 2012, over links to a network of terror sympathizers and an abortive trip to Yemen.
Amimour's father traveled to ISIS-held territory in June 2014 in an effort to convince his son to leave Syria but was rebuffed, according to Le Monde newspaper. 'He was with another guy, who never left us alone,' the father said.
Two others who blew themselves up inside the Bataclan have been identified as Frenchmen Samy Amimour (left), 28, and Omar Ismail Mostefai (right)
Foued Mohamed Aggad has finally been identified as the third Bataclan theatre attacker, nearly a month after the massacre in Paris
FOUED MOHAMED AGGAD
Finally identified as the third Bataclan theatre attacker, nearly a month after the massacre in Paris.
The 23-year-old is understood to have travelled to Syria with his brother and a group of friends at the end of 2013, according to a source close to the investigation.
STADIUM KILLERS
Authorities say three suicide bombers were set to attack the Stade de France, though they were unable to get into the stadium and they killed only one bystander:
AHMAD AL-MOHAMMAD, 25
That's the name written on a Syrian passport found near one of the suicide bombers. The document describes Al-Mohammad as a 25-year-old from the rebel-held Syrian city Idlib. French officials said in a statement that the bomber's fingerprints match a set taken in Greece in October.
A Greek official says the person holding Al-Mohammad's passport went through administrative processing on the Greek island of Leros after setting out from Turkey, staying there for five days before arriving by ship in Athens.
He later entered Serbia, where authorities took fingerprints that match those given in Greece, and he then crossed into Croatia the next day, according to a Serbian security official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
It's not known whether Al-Mohammad is the man's real name.
According to papers presented on arrival, Paris bombers M al-Mahmod (right) and Ahmad al-Mohammad (left) entered Europe via Greece
BILAL HADFI, age unclear.
A police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly identified Hadfi, a French citizen, as one of the three stadium bombers. Belgian police said Friday they were keeping in custody a person linked to Hadfi in an investigation not directly related to the Paris attacks.
An official in the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said raids related to Hadfi targeted people in his "entourage."
The third stadium bomber hasn't been named, but French officials said he entered Greece at the same time as Al-Mohammed.
CAFE ATTACKER
Authorities believe there was one attacker on the cafe Comptoir Voltaire:
BRAHIM ABDESLAM, 30 or 31
Abdeslam, elder brother of fugitive Salah Abdeslam, blew himself up outside the cafe.
A person in Belgium familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press that Brahim Abdeslam became 'close' with Abaaoud while living in the Molenbeek neighborhood.
ON THE LOOSE
On the loose: Salah Abdeslam (pictured) is suspected of having rented the VW Polo and Renault Clio cars used in the attacks
Salah Abdeslam, 26, French, born in Brussels. Suspected of having rented the VW Polo and Renault Clio cars used in the attacks. Investigators say he went to Belgium from France the day after the attacks in a VW Golf, despite being stopped by French police along the way in routine road checks before his name was circulated as a suspect.
His brother Brahim died in the attack.
Fears that Salah was back in Belgium and might be plotting attacks prompted the closure of Brussels underground rail lines, schools, shopping centres and other public places on November 20. The shutdown was partially lifted on November 25.
French police are examining a suicide belt dumped in Montrouge on the southwestern fringes of Paris, where phone traces suggested Salah was present on the night of November 13.
Investigators are trying to establish whether Salah was supposed to carry out an attack in Paris's 18th district, the prosecutor said. In its statement, Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack there that did not happen.
OTHER DEAD:
HASNA AITBOULAHCEN: woman, 26, who suffocated under rubble in the November 18 police assault in St. Denis.
Police were tapping her phone as part of a drugs probe and watched her lead Abaaoud back to the apartment before the raid. Abaaoud and another man apparently called her in haste on November 17 from where they were hiding in bushes to find them a hideout.
Other: The third person who died in the St. Denis raid may have been the third gunman involved in the cafe shootings, but this has yet to be confirmed.
DETAINED:
In France: Jawad Bendaoud, one of eight arrested in St. Denis swoop, who provided lodgings for Abaaoud. Jawad told French TV as he was being led away to custody on November 18 that he was unaware he had helped suspected terrorists.
Prosecutor Molins said Bendaoud was in contact before and after the attacks with a person using a Belgian phone who was in turn in phone contact with the attackers.
The other seven arrested, five of whom are thought to be squatters who had taken refuge in the same building, according to police sources, were released after questioning.
In sweeps facilitated by state of emergency rules that apply until February 2016, police have searched 2,235 homes, taken 232 people into custody and discovered 334 weapons, 34 of them war-grade, since the November 13 attacks, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on December 2.
These are in theory wide-net roundups of people who may have suspected links in some way or other to Islamist circles. There have been some accounts in local media of police excess, or mistaken raid addresses or identities.
In Turkey: Ahmet Dahmani, a Belgian man of Moroccan origin suspected of some form of involvement in the Paris attack, was arrested by police in Turkey on November 21, a government official said. A Turkish news agency said he acted as a "scout" in selecting target locations. Dahmani, 26, was arrested at a luxury hotel in the southern Turkish coastal city of Antalya after travelling from Amsterdam on November 14. Two suspected accomplices were also arrested, the official said.
In Belgium: Eight have been placed under formal investigation on terrorism-related charges after more than two dozen arrests.
Two young brothers in the group – Yassine and Mourad Boudjellal – were killed fighting for IS within a few days of arriving.
Aggad was close to Mourad Fares – a notorious recruiter of jihadists in France. Identifying the third attacker has taken almost a month because of the state of Aggad's body.
It was formally identified last Friday after his DNA was matched with those of his family members, said a police source in Paris.
Two others who blew themselves up inside the Bataclan have been identified as Frenchmen Samy Amimour, 28, from Drancy, north-east of Paris and Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, who lived in Chartres, south west of Paris.
All three Bataclan attackers were killed, two by detonating suicide vests and one who was shot by police.
Music fans had packed into the Bataclan theatre to watch the US rock band Eagles of Death Metal. This picture was taken moments before ISIS gunmen opened fire
Wounded people are evacuated from the Bataclan theatre in Paris as the attack unfolded on November 13
The latest information means that all the attackers identified so far were French or Belgian, all native French speakers.
The Bataclan shootings were part of a co-ordinated ISIS attack that killed 130 people in a wave of gun and suicide bomb attacks on busy cafes, bars and the Stade de France stadium.
Mostefai, a Frenchman of Algerian descent, lived for a time in Chartres, south-west of Paris and was born in Courcouronnes, south of the city.
His name was put on French intelligence services' 'S notice' in 2010 for reported radicalisation.
An unnamed senior Turkish government official says Turkey contacted France about Mostefai in December 2014 and June 2015 but only got a return request for information on him after the Paris attacks.
Amimour, had been the subject of an international arrest warrant since late 2013. He had been under official investigation since October 2012 on suspicion of terrorism-related activity over a plan to go to Yemen.
Gunmen went on the rampage around popular bars and restaurants while suicide bombers also targeted the Stade de France stadium
The bus driver, who had reportedly been radicalised in a mosque near Drancy, was ordered by police to check in with them every week but missed four checks in 2013.
After nearly a month, authorities put out the warrant for his arrest but he was already in Syria.
A third attacker in the Bataclan attack was shot dead by police. No further identity information has been provided.
The identity of the third attacker was revealed a day after Eagles of Death Metal, the band on stage when the attack took, made an emotional visit to the theatre.
Led by frontman Jesse Hughes, the group laid flowers, shed tears and hugged one another at the tribute site for the victims in front of the concert hall.
They received applause from a crowd of people gathered across the Boulevard Voltaire who braved the rain to be present for the event.
Managers have said they hope to reopen the well-known venue by the end of next year.
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