Syrian passport holder Ahmad Al Mohammad, who is said to have passed with refugees through the Greek island of Leros, is one of the suicide bombers named by French prosecutors in the past few minutes.
The prosecutor’s office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.
He was named yesterday by Greek and Serbian newspapers as Ahmed Almohamed, though different spellings are common with transliterated Arabic names.
He was born on 10 September 1990 in Idlib, north-west Syria, according to the passport.
The passport was registered by a refugee who landed on the Greek island of Leros, on 7 October. Al Mohammad is then reported to have travelled through Macedonia before crossing into Serbia at Miratovac.
The Serbian newspaper Blic said he crossed into the country on 7 October, having arrived four days earlier in Leros, and reported that he had formally sought asylum in the southern Serbian town of Preševo.
A Greek newspaper, Proto Thema, said he was travelling with a second man, which it named as Mohammed Almuhamed, and published pictures purporting to show their travel documents. The passport scans published by the Greek and Serbian newspapers have not been independently verified.
Authorities had understandably been cautious over the past few days about definitively saying the passport found at the scene belonged to the bomber, until his fingerprints were matched this morning.
The Guardian has previously reported on the burgeoning trade in fake and stolen passports from Syria.
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Al Mohammad was traveling with Almuhamed? Albeit we have John Smiths galore, these names seem conveniently confusing as to just how many people actually were signed through.