French citizen identified as third Bataclan attacker
Posted Dec 9, 2015 07:17:15 AM.
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A French legal official says the third attacker at the Bataclan concert hall has been identified as a man from the eastern city of Strasbourg who left for Syria in 2013.
The official, who requested anonymity to give details of the ongoing investigation, did not provide the man’s name.
The official said a text message in English sent to a woman announcing her son’s death in the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris led authorities to identify him as the third attacker. It is unclear who sent the text message.
The official said the woman provided a DNA sample last week, allowing authorities to identify French citizen Foued Mohamed-Aggad as the third dead attacker in the Bataclan.
The latest information means that all the attackers identified so far were French or Belgian, all native French speakers.
In all, 130 people died in the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, with the worst of the carnage at the Bataclan.
All three Bataclan attackers were killed, two by detonating suicide vests and one who was shot by police.
