returned to syria two years ago before take part in the attack. reporter: we are finally learning about that third attacker at bataclan theater where 0 people were killed. he was a frenchman, a 23-year-old, a. two attackers detonated their vest, a third was killed by police. it was isis who alerted. how many europeans traveled to syria and were trained there and came back to carey out these attacks. aggad traveled to syria with a dozen friends having told his
among them the group got to syria, two of the group were killed in the fighting there. then some of them came back, they were held under protective custody, including the brother. the youngest, 23-year-old, was, in fact, not spotted by police when he came back. he didn t come back. he planned his attack if france. he said he wanted to attack the people in france and came in and committed along with two other terrorists the attack on the bataclan theater. so, in fact, authorities were always worried about this scenario, the idea french young people would pass under the radar, they have passports, they speak with a perfect accent. they are basically, the authorities can t spot them when they come in and they were able to come in with weapons and perpetrate the kind of attacks we saw november 13. it is really one of the worst nightmare scenarios for authorities. the united states passed a
fouad mohamed aggad. he went as part of a group. the others returned to france. they were arrested by police and put under provisionary detention, all of them except for fouad, mohamed aggad. he vowed to take revenge on france and in fact has now. he s been identified. that makes all three of the attackers at the bataclan theater, the performance hall, who killed 90 french young people, all three of them were french born and had french passports. michaela, chris? thank you very much. we appreciate it, jim. paris driving fear of terror striking here and then it did. san bernardino, the more we learn, the scarier it is. the male terrorist was planning
23-year-old fouad mohamed aggad. he joined two others in the killing of 90 people in that concert hall. jim bitterman is live in paris with the latest. reporter: one of the things we re hearing is that in fact it was the parents of mohamed aggad who may have helped authorities identify him. basically his mother says that she received a text message from syria just saying simply that her son had died as a martyr in paris. she went to authorities with that information. they had the dna from mohamed aggad s body from the bat clan theater. he blew himself up. and with the dna from the mother there was enough similarities to know that was the identity of the third person at the bataclan theater, where ninety people were killed. so now it s been confirmed that all three gunmen at that theater
for about two weeks. and they ve been withholding it. pending other sorts of investigations. they said that it was part of the investigation they didn t want to release the name. that could be related to the fact that according to reports here, the mother of mohamed-aggad, her apartment was searched last night in the suburb of strasbourg. that s where he s from. he grew up there. he was known to police as a petty criminal, purportedly left in 2013 to syria, where he was apparently radicalized and chose to come back and be part of the team that hit the bataclan theater. one other fact that s emerged here in some of the reporting is that according to the reports, his older brother, 25-year-old, is in prison right now being held by police because he also traveled to syria, and got himself on the radar of authorities, so they arrested