Paris attacks: police identify third Bataclan attacker

A 23-year-old man from Strasbourg, eastern France, has been identified as the third attacker involved in the terrorist assault at the Bataclan music hall in Paris, police sources have said.

Foued Mohamed Aggad went to Syria with his brother and a group of friends at the end of 2013, according to a source close to the investigation.

Most of the others were arrested in spring last year after returning to France but Aggad stayed on in Syria, the source said.

Ninety people were killed at the Bataclan during last month's attacks.

Two others who blew themselves up at the music venue were identified as Frenchmen Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, and Samy Amimour, 28.

Mostefai was identified from a finger-tip found at the venue, where US band Eagles of Death Metal had been playing a concert when the gunmen attacked.

He was reported to have previously worked as a banker in Chartres near Paris but in 2010 was identified by authorities as a suspected extremist.

Amimour, from the north-eastern Paris suburb of Drancy, had been charged with terror offences in 2012 over claims he planned to travel to Yemen.

After being placed under judicial supervision, he disappeared, with authorities issuing an international arrest warrant.