A trove of leaked Islamic State (IS) group documents features the names of the three militants who carried out the assault on the Bataclan theater during terror attacks in Paris in November last year, German media reported on Friday.
Among the thousands of IS registration papers were those of Samy Amimour, Foued Mohamed-Aggad and Omar Ismail Mostefai, public broadcasters NDR and WDR and Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said.
The three men, using guns and suicide vests, killed 90 people at the Bataclan during a concert by rock band Eagles of Death Metal in the deadliest attack of the rampage that claimed 130 lives across the French capital on Nov. 13 last year.
The German research team said it had obtained data on several thousand IS members from a total of 22,000 documents, which were earlier also obtained by British broadcaster Sky News.
They contain the names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of militants who joined the group, as well as their blood type, mother’s maiden name, “level of Shariah understanding” and previous experience.
The fighters listed in the cache of documents came from across Europe and the US, Russia, Indonesia, South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago, the German media team said.
German federal police on Thursday said it had access to the same type of documents and considered them highly likely to be authentic, but some experts have voiced doubts or urged caution.
The German report said some papers also made indirect reference to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the organizer of the Paris killings.
Mostefai, a 29-year-old French national, blew himself up at the Bataclan music venue. His identity was confirmed using a severed fingertip found at the scene.
Another Bataclan suicide bomber was 28-year-old Amimour, a former bus driver, while the third was Mohamed-Aggad, 23, from Strasbourg, France.
The report said the papers showed that Mohamed-Aggad had arrived in IS territory on Dec. 18, 2013, with an unusually large group of French militants that included 14 men and their families.
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