Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin has just named the co-pilot has Andreas Lubitz.
He says his nationality is German.
He doesn’t know his ethnicity or his religion, but says “I don’t think that’s where the answer to this lies.”
Mr Brice confirms that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was definitely alone in the cockpit.
He says the families of the victims have been informed of all this.
They asked many questions, including international law about the pilot being allowed out of the cockpit.
No, the answer more likely lies in what Lubitz says just before impact. That aircraft did not hit the ground in a descent. It was pitched down in a vertical dive into the ground. That is what the debris field looks like.
My guess is there is something said just before that, that we will never be told. Something that starts with the name of the Arabian moon-god. If the head of the CIA and the POTUS can be a muzzie, why can’t a 28 year old German be?