The third man who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris during the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks went to Syria with a group of other young people in 2013, an official confirmed Wednesday, NBC reported.
The attacker, Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23, was identified by his mother after she received a text message announcing his death “as a martyr” on the night of the attacks that left 130 people dead and hundreds more injured, a representative for the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
She then gave police a DNA sample that confirmed that one of her children was inside the concert hall, the prosecutor’s office told NBC.
Mohamed-Aggad’s parents were horrified when they learned what their son had done.
“What kind of human being could do what he did?” the attacker’s father, Said, told Le Parisien newspaper. “If I had known he would do something like this, I would have killed him.”
So far, all of the attackers that have been identified were citizens of France and Belgium, native French speakers who joined the Islamic State terrorist group.
Le Parisien reports that the group who went to Syria came from the eastern city of Strasbourg and returned to Europe in the spring of 2014.
• Kellan Howell can be reached at khowell@washingtontimes.com.
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