Three Paris attackers feature in ISIS files

Names of three of the Paris attackers figure in massive documents leak from ISIS, media reports said on Saturday.

Samy Amimour, Foued Mohamed-Aggad and Omar Ismail Mostefai, believed to have carried out the worst attack in Paris at the Bataclan theatre during a concert by a rock band in November, are among 22,000 ISIS recruits worldwide whose identities have been revealed in the recent leak. As many as 90 people were killed using guns and suicide vests in the Bataclan attack during a concert by Eagles of Death Metal, whose singer and guitarist Jesse Hughes on Friday apologised for alleging that the club’s security guards were involved, saying he was struggling with trauma.

The ISIS files, obtained by German, UK and Syrian Opposition media, are said to identify thousands of recruits from at least 40 countries, and German officials have said the files can be assumed to be genuine.

The files indicate that the three men who attacked the Bataclan entered ISIS territory in 2013 and 2014, German public broadcaster WDR, that has obtained the documents, was cited in a report by the BBC.

On Saturday, two teenage girls have been charged in France with allegedly plotting to assault a Paris concert hall some four months after the nation’s deadliest terror attacks, legal sources said. The girls, 15 and 17 years old, exchanged messages on Facebook in which they claimed they wanted to launch an attack similar to those in November that targeted the Bataclan concert venue as well as bars, restaurants and a football stadium, the police said.