Monday, 16 November 2015

Two More Suicide Attackers Identified

Two more suicide bombers involved in the deadly attacks in Paris have been identified, the prosecutor's office said.

Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012, blew himself up inside the Bataclan theatre on Friday night.

Prosecutors said he was from Drancy in northeast Paris and had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.

A suicide bomber who died outside the national football stadium was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib.

The identity of the man in the passport has not been verified but the prosecutor's office said fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.

Meanwhile, it is claimed another suspect was questioned and released by police hours after the massacres.

Salah Abdeslam, 26, reportedly helped with logistics and rented a black Volkswagen Polo used by the gunmen who stormed the Bataclan concert hall and killed at least 89 people on Friday night.

He was apparently spoken to by officers on Saturday morning when they pulled over a car carrying three people near the Belgian border.

Police then checked Abdeslam's ID and subsequently let him go, officials told the Associated Press.

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