Paris attacks update: Police post the photo of third suicide bomber, urge for public help
The French police have issued the image of a third suicide bomber who detonated a bomb at Paris’ Stade de France, the stadium where a soccer match between France and Germany had been taking place on Nov. 13.
According to the BBC, the man had been travelling from one place to another as M al-Mahmod. The police mentioned that the third suicide bomber of the Paris attacks entered the Greek Islands of Leros on Oct. 3. He accompanied Ahmad al-Mohammed, one of the fellow attackers of the stadium whose passport was recovered from one of the first dead suspects of the attacks.
French police have not yet confirmed the identity of the third suicide bomber. However, BBC’s Ed Thomas has matched the features of the image released by the police with a picture of those suspects who arrived from the Leros islands.
French police have posted the picture of the man and requested the public to help identify the bomber and provide relevant details about him. “This individual is the third dead perpetrator of one of the attacks carried on 13 November at the Stade de France,” stated the tweet.
BBC reported that the two companions purchased ferry tickets to continue their trip through Europe after Leros along with Syrian refugees. However, until Sunday evening, there were no reports of identification of the image or any details about the third suicide bomber.
According to the French media, there were nine attackers involved in the Paris attacks, seven of them died on Nov. 13. So far as details about Salah Abdeslam were concerned, one of the men who helped the attacker to flee to Belgium said that he was dressed in a black jacket and might have had a suicide belt.
One of the prosecutors, Carine Couquelet, told French TV that there are doubts on whether Abdeslam was supposed to blow himself up during the attacks. There was a possibility of him changing his mind at the last minute. The friends of the attacker told ABC News that they had a conversation with Abdeslam on Skype where he confessed that he was in Brussels and was trying to reach Syria.
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