Paris bomber left Belgium for Syria in 2013: prosecutors

January 15, 2016 22:58

A Belgian-Moroccan man who blew himself up during a police raid days after the Paris attacks had travelled in 2013 to Syria where he joined the Islamic State group, Belgian prosecutors said today.

Chakib Akrouh, a suspected gunman in the Paris attacks whose identity was released in Paris yesterday, used a one-way ticket to fly from Brussels to Istanbul on January 4, 2013, the federal prosecutor's office said.

"The investigation then indicated his presence in Syria from January 2013 when he joined the ranks of the Katibat al-Muhajereen, then the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," it said in a statement, using another name for the Islamic State.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said yesterday that Akrouh, a 25-year-old Belgian-Moroccan dual national who was born in Belgium, was identified from DNA matched to his mother.

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