Third Paris Attacker Identified, Joined ISIS in Syria

French police have identified the third person who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Nov. 13.

The majority of the 130 people killed in the Paris attacks were murdered at the Bataclan.

Investigators say the third identified attacker, Foued Mohamed-Aggad, is from the eastern city of Strasbourg and he spent time in Syria in late 2013.

So far, all attackers were French or Belgian and were native French speakers.

The news was further confirmation that the deadly Paris attacks were carried out largely, if not entirely, by Europeans trained by the Islamic State group in Syria.

The three Bataclan suspects died in the attack. Two detonated suicide vests and the other was shot by police.

French authorities had little if any indication of the third attacker's identity until ISIS provided the information.

Mohamed-Aggad's mother received a text message in English about 10 days ago announcing her son's death "as a martyr" on Nov. 13, a typical way the Islamic State notifies families of casualties.

The mother then gave French police a DNA sample which proved that one of her sons was killed inside the Bataclan, his brother's lawyer said.

"Without the mother, there would have been nothing," said the lawyer, Francoise Cotta.

Cotta said Mohamed-Aggad had told his family months ago that he was going to be a suicide bomber in Iraq and had no intention of returning to France.

Cotta also told The Associated Press that Mohamed-Aggad was flagged as a radical, but there was no warrant for his arrest.

"What kind of human being could do what he did?" his father, Said, told The Parisien newspaper. "If I had known he would do something like this, I would have killed him."