Paris attacks: two suspects arrested in Austria identified – Le Parisien

This Algerian of 28 years and 34 years of Pakistanis with false Syrian passports were arrested on December 10 in Salzburg, near the German border, where they arrived late November. Soon, investigators have shown very strong evidence against them, saying it was sent by the terrorist Islamic state in Europe.

“I wanted to go to Germany. It is a beautiful country. People are nice there. I like their national soccer team. I wanted to go in the German capital, Frankfurt, “said the Algerian suspect before the Austrian investigators.

The Algerian had joined the jihadist Islamic State organization (EI) in February 2015, and the Pakistanis is described as a pyrotechnician for two Pakistani jihadist groups, deemed close to al Qaeda. They are currently in custody in Austria as part of a terrorism investigation.

The French and Austrian investigators are also looking at whether they should play a role in the attacks of 13 November in Paris and around Stade de France, who made 130 dead.

Over the investigations, coincidences emerged:

• In the same group that suicide bombers from the Stade de France. the two men landed on the island of Leros in Greece October 3, among a group of 198 migrants in which two suicide bombers had infiltrated the Stade de France, also traveling with fake Syrian passports. They then arrested for possession of false documents and imprisoned until October 28. Upon their release, they are subject to deportation proceedings requiring them to leave Greece within 30 days.

• The alleged mastermind of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, killed during the assault to police after the Saint-Denis Paris attacks, had been spotted in Greece in September.

• the investigators found in the cell of the Algerian Turkish telephone number, known as services in connection with members of a logistics support network organization Islamic state. Now this number is the same as that found in the pocket of one of the kamikazes of the Stade de France. It would also have been linked to Ahmed Dahmani, a Belgian-Moroccan suspected of involvement in the identification of the targets of the Paris attacks and arrested in Turkey.

• The same Greek phone number appeared in the Algerian phones and a near Abdelhamid Abaaoud arrested January 17, 2015 in Greece.

on December 18, the Austrian police arrested, also in Salzburg, a Moroccan 25 years old and an Algerian, aged 40, believed to have been in close contact with the two suspects.