PARIS, Nov 15 – The first identified Paris suicide bomber, Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, 29, who lived in France until at least 2012. The French newspaper Le Monde reports that Mostefaï was identified by his fingertip, found after he detonated a suicide vest inside the Bataclan concert hall as police closed in.
Mostefaï’s brother and father have been detained by French police after contacting authorities in their hometown of Courcouronnes of their own volition. In the meantime, Le Monde also reported that Mostefaï had minor convictions on his criminal record and was the father of a young daughter born in 2010.
Earlier, three men were arrested in the Belgian capital of Brussels, where three of the attackers are believed to have lived.Syrian and Egyptian passports were found with the bodies of two more of the attackers, while another is believed to be aged just 15. The official death toll now stands at 129, with more than 350 more injured and 99 of those in a critical condition.
