The father of one of the three terrorists who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris last month says he would have killed his son had he found out what he was going to do.
The Le Parisien newspaper identified the third attacker Wednesday as 23-year-old Foued Mohamed-Aggad, a native of the eastern French city of Strasbourg. It emerged that his mother received a text message in English about 10 days ago announcing her son's death "as a martyr" on Nov. 13 — a typical way that ISIS notifies families of casualties.
"What kind of human being could do what he did?" the man's father, Said, told the newspaper. "If I had known he would do something like this, I would have killed him."
The Associated Press reported that Mohamed-Aggad and a group of about a dozen young men left Strasbourg for Syria in late 2013. Some chose to return -- including Mohamed-Aggad's brother Karim -- telling investigators they were disgusted by what they had seen. The Frenchman believed to have recruited them, Mourad Fares, is also under arrest. All are charged with terror-related offenses and face trial.
