Sunday, November 15, 2015

France said the name of a perpetrator of the attack

The prosecutor Francois Molins said, "We have to figure out where the perpetrator comes .. and how they got the funding." EPA

French investigators already reveal the identity of an attacker that killed 129 people in Paris.

The name of a French citizen Omar Ismail Mostefai called by the local media and the French parliament.


29-year-old man had a criminal record and were radicalized.

Investigators found pieces of his finger in Bataclan concert hall, where the three perpetrators committed suicide, according to the AFP news agency.

Misdemeanor

Police are now trying to find out whether Mostefai been to Syria in 2014, according to legal sources told AFP.

His father and brother are now in police custody.

Soldiers arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport as part of additional security personnel on Saturday, November 14th, 2015. AP

"It's crazy, unimaginable. I was in Paris last night, I saw for myself the mess," said brother Mostefai AFP before voluntarily went to a police station on Saturday (14/11).

Mostefai from the city of Courcouronnes, 25km south of Paris.

He lived in the town of Chartres to 2012 and regularly come to the mosque in Luce near Chartres, according to AFP.

Mostefai minor criminal record, but never jailed. The security forces estimate he suffered a radicalization process in 2010 but never appeared in the investigation against terrorism.

One of the cafes near Bataclan concert hall music. GETTY

Brother Mostefai say they have not talked to each other a few years after a family dispute, but he was not surprised his brother became radicalized.

Mostefai is one of six children and never been to Algeria with family and young daughter, said the brother.

Linkages with Belgium?

The investigation is now focusing on possible links with Belgium after police made arrests in three men near the French border.

Volkswagen Polo black color with registration Belgium found in Bataclan hired by a French man living in Belgium, said the chief prosecutor of Paris.

Police saw the French citizen was driving another car on Saturday (14/11) again and into Belgium with two passengers.

Soldiers secure the Eiffel Tower. EPA

According to the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris, amid investigators to prove the theory that this is probably the three other teams attackers escaped from the scene.

The prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters, "We can say at this stage of the investigation that there may be three teams coordinate with each other behind this cruel act. We have to figure out where they came from ... and how they got the funding."

A Syrian passport, was found near the body of a perpetrator of the attack at Stade de France, used to pass the island of Leros, Greece, last month, the Greek official said. (bbc)
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