Paris attacks: France identifies suicide bombers who targeted Bataclan, football stadium

Paris: The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday that two more suicide bombers involved in deadly attacks in the French capital have been identified. Prosecutors said that one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday night was Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant. [caption id=“attachment_2506138” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Rescuers and police stand by on Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire near the Bataclan concert hall. AFP[/caption] Prosecutors say three people in Amimour’s family entourage have been in custody since early Monday. A suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the national soccer stadium Stade de France was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib. The prosecutor’s office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October. Meanwhile, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said France had the “legitimacy” to take action against Islamic State after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. Fabius said Sunday on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Turkey that the decision to conduct airstrikes in Raqqa against Islamic State targets was a “political” one and that France had to be “present and active” following Friday’s attacks. The series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed 129 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. President Francois Hollande condemned it as terrorism and pledged that France would stand firm against its foes. The worst carnage was at the Bataclan concert hall hosting the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal, where scores of people were held hostage and attackers ended the standoff by detonating explosive belts. Police who stormed the building encountered a bloody scene of horror inside. When the attacks were over, eight attackers were dead — seven of them in suicide explosions, one killed by security forces in the music venue, Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre told The Associated Press on Saturday. AP