A Syrian passport has been retrieved from one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up outside the Stade de France stadium last night, according to two French police officers.
The second of the stadium suicide bombers is believed to have been as young as 15 years old.
Two of the eight terrorists have now been identified: the man with the Syrian passport and a second who is believed by police to have been a French Muslim.
However it has not yet been confirmed whether the Syrian passport was authentic, or was one of the many forged passports flooding into Europe with the refugee crisis.
Witnesses have told of the horror which unfolded inside the Bataclan theatre, where more than 1,000 people were watching rock band Eagles of Death Metal perform.
The told of how AK47 wielding terrorists shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ as they ‘blindly’ opened fire into a crowd of people.
Others reported terrorists shouting ‘This is for Syria’.
All eight terrorists died during the attacks, with seven killing themselves in suicide blasts and the last being shot by police.
Four of the attackers died at the Bataclan Theatre, three died at the Stade de France football stadium and the last on the Voltaire Boulevard.
