Foued Mohamed Aggad had travelled to war-torn Syria with his brother and a accumulation of accompany at the end of 2013, according to a antecedent abutting to the investigation.
The two added attackers complex in the annihilation of 90 concertgoers at the Bataclan -- Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, and 28-year-old above Paris bus disciplinarian Samy Amimour -- had aswell been in Syria.
Two of the gunmen blew themselves up with suicide belts arranged with explosives afterwards the killing spree, the affliction of the November 13 Paris attacks.
The third was attempt by badge who stormed the breadth with hundreds of humans still inside.
Most of the accumulation of six men from Strasbourg who went to Syria with Aggad were arrested in the Meinau breadth of the city-limits on their acknowledgment in May endure year and are all in aegis on agitator charges.
But Aggad backward on in Syria, the antecedent said.
- Others 'killed fighting' -
Investigators accept two brothers from the group, Mourad and Yassine Boudjellal, were asleep angry with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) afore it restyled itself as the Islamic State (IS) group.
When questioned on their return, the men claimed they had been abashed by what they had witnessed in Syria and had started to distill aback to France from February 2014.
They claimed to accept gone to Syria for altruistic plan but prosecutors accept they were allotment of the Islamic State group, which claimed albatross for the annihilation in Paris.
Aggad was articular at the end of endure anniversary afterwards his DNA was akin with associates of his family, the badge antecedent said.
Police doubtable the Strasbourg accumulation had been recruited by Mourad Fares, 31, who was accepted to French intelligence for recruiting jihadist fighters through amusing media and the Internet.
Fares -- who France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has declared as a "particularly alarming individual" -- was arrested in August 2014 in Turkey afore getting handed over to the French authorities.
Cazeneuve said he was an important hotlink man amid assorted "jihadist agitator movements", including the IS and Al-Qaeda's Syrian associate Al-Nusra.
Nearly 1,500 humans were watching the Californian bandage Eagles of Death Metal play at the Bataclan if the gunmen access in endure month, abrogation 90 asleep and hundreds hurt, mostly humans beneath 40.
The bandage fabricated an affecting acknowledgment to the breadth on Tuesday, with advance accompanist Jesse Hughes in tears as he laid a individual annual a part of the bags of tributes to the dead.
The band's affairs manager, Nick Alexander, a 36-year-old Briton, was a part of the victims.
The Bataclan's owners accept said they wish to reopen the anteroom at the end of next year and the Eagles of Death Metal say they wish to play in the aboriginal concert.
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