Two more suicide bombers named by Paris authorities
Bomber at Stade de France, concert hall attacker identified by French prosecutor
Two other suicide bombers from the Paris attacks have been identified, the city’s chief prosecutor said Monday.
Investigators have now named seven of the suspected attackers, including five who died in the attacks, one arrested in Belgium and another on the run. Another two assailants died in Friday night’s series of gun and bomb attacks that killed 132.
Prosecutor Francois Molins named the two bombers as Ahmad al-Mohammad and Samy Amimour.
Al-Mohammad died at the Stade de France. He has been identified through a Syrian passport found at the scene that identifies him as a 25-year-old born in Idlib, Molins’ office said in a statement.
The prosecutor said fingerprints from the attacker matched those of someone who passed through Greece in October but the passport is still to be authenticated.
Amimour was one of the Bataclan concert hall bombers. He was aged 28 and lived in Drancy, a northern suburb of Paris. The prosecutor said he charged with terror offenses in 2012 after trying to travel to Yemen and is reported to have gone to Syria in 2013.
On Sunday, police issued an arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national born in Belgium, on suspicion involvement in the attacks.
According to French authorities, one of his brothers blew himself up near the Bataclan while the other was arrested in Belgium.
Salah Abdeslam reportedly rented a Volkswagen Polo in Belgium that carried some of the attackers to their targets. He is said to have been stopped hours after the attacks near the Belgian border with two other men but all three were released.
Also identified Sunday were his dead brother Ibrahim and Omar Ismail Mostefai, another of those who died at the Bataclan.
Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, was linked to Belgian extremist Abdelhamid Abaaoud 2010 and 2011 criminal cases, Flemish-language newspaper De Standaard reported.
President Francois Hollande said the attacks - the deadliest on European soil since the 2004 Madrid train bombings killed 191 - were carried out by Daesh. The Syria-based group later claimed responsibility.
