the pistol the rifle. authorities say as well that the passengers prevented a massacre. there s now new information about the suspect and his alleged ties to terrorism. brian to do is here looking into this part of the story. we have learned this suspect was on the radar of european counterterrorism officials. by it s not clear if any wand monitoring him. his lawyer says he had found the weapons in a suitindication abandoned abandoned. he hadded idea of getting on the train that he heard healthy people take amsterdam to parris. he thought of doing this to feed himself and do a robbery. reporter: french officials dismiss his tornado.
he was armed with a rifle, a shot dun and pistol. french intelligence officials say they put an s-notice to his name signifying an individual who merited surveillance. he got that notice because of the apparent connection to radical mosques in spain where he once lived. a senior european counter-terrorism analyst tells cnn of a trip he took there is strong indications that he traveled to turkey from europe between may and july of this year and they believe he did that in order to try to link up with the isis terrorism group in syria probably. reporter: it s not clear if al kazzani got into but they re looking into when he was linked to a group of french fighters in turkey.