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FRENCH POLICE HAVE released a photo of the third of three suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside France’s national stadium during the November 13 Paris attacks.
Investigators said on Friday that the assailant turned up among refugees on the Greek island of Leros on October 3, along with another attacker whose photo has been released but who remains unidentified.
Only one of the three assailants at the Stade de France, north of Paris, has been identified so far – French national Bilal Hadfi, 20, who lived in Belgium.
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The man in the photo released this evening presented a Syrian passport in the name of Mohammad al-Mahmod to Greek authorities, a source close to the investigation said.
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He and the other attacker who landed on Leros then took a ferry to the Greek port of Piraeus on October 8 before joining the migrant flow toward Serbia.
They were among seven gunmen and suicide bombers in the wave of coordinated attacks in Paris that left 130 dead and around 350 wounded.
Investigators are still hunting for Salah Abdeslam, suspected of fleeing the scene and heading to Belgium.
One person was killed when the three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the Stade de France the night of the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group, which also targeted the Bataclan concert hall and several bars and restaurants in a trendy part of eastern Paris.
Kerry. ..get your broomstick fixed. ..unfortunately we can’t ask be perfect like you. …maybe some of us are doing more important things like looking after an Ill parent while reading. ….so sorry not to be up to your high standards
Marc- you should’ve qualified your comment on making it.. ‘I’m minding my sick parent and didn’t have time to read the article but… Here’s my tuppence worth anyway..”
Fionn ….forgive me for not being as perfect as you. ….I’m beat myself with a piece of wood with a rusty nail as penance for the rest of the evening….I hope that makes your life more tolerable as a result
Thanks kerry. ….my life is so much better now that you’re giving me advice. …maybe you sound enter political life with such an uncanny ability as being able to point out the school of the b***rding ignores. Obvious. …anyway I’m sleeved from my duties now ams in going to have a nice couple of pints celebrating not being as enlightened as you and your other equally amazing mate commenting on here. …Have a nice. ….whatever it is you’re having. …Bye
Cool… ;) Sure, it’s all fun… until we find out that Suzie and Joachin are siblings… not quite a GoT reveal, but hey – although I’m fairly sure a few of my family and friends comment here regularly, only one (I think) knows who I am, really…
In case people have forgotten or we’re not aware the shinners and their friends on the army council were wasting innocent people with bombs and bullets not that long ago just like the jihadist are doing today. No difference.
The IRA were borne out of a legitimate Resistance to the illegal occupation of our country Go and read a few history books mate, you wouldn’t be living in an Independent republic today if not for the brave men who laid down their lives for our freedom and independence
Francis, are you having a laugh? How the bleedin’ hell are we any better off? Ireland was backwards cesspit for 80 years with mass immigration and unemployment. I think you need to read a history book, or talk to someone over the age of 50.
I see the minister for deputising and exploiting Garda cars as alternative transport to airports dara Murphy is well up for sending Irish troops abroad if and when he gets the text…
How much longer will this insane policy of allowing hordes of young fighting age men to march into Europe our homes our countries unchecked?
This insane liberal policy of “Yay Regugees Welcome” has put all of our lives in danger. Have you had enough yet of “Political Correctness”, “Diversity” , “Multi Curalism”
Right now even after several incidents this year of Islamist terrorists massacring innocents in our cities we’re still listening to liberal commentators on tv/radio telling us that these poor muslims are poor and disenfranchised and its our fault that they’re angry! Give me a foooking break, Time to clamp down hard! Ban any cleric who preaches hardline islam, ban muslim schools! Deport en masse! Time for people of Europe to rise up
Fvck ye must all have beautiful innocent looking passport photos to pass comment on how evil this guy looks. Maybe ye should get a job at immigration with the talent ye have for spotting a terrorist by glancing at their photos.
I’m impressed by all the people who can tell from a photograph that someone is an evil terrorist. That will greatly facilitate the task of identifying terrorists or would be terrorists.
@Fiona deFreyne…..Why don’t all the ISIS supporters put their photographs on their avatars so we can compare? Don’t worry about the hijab- or is it beard!
The way to contain or even to neutralise the Daesh inspired threat in Europe is superior intelligence gathering, improved analysis, developing superior heuristics and algorithms for data mining, superior monitoring of Sony Playstation closed emails, a common intelligence sharing protocol throughout the West, and planting traps to study and to entrap the IS groomers who prey on the Internet.
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