Paris attacks - suicide bomber from flat in Seine-Saint-Denis identified

Paris attacks - suicide bomber from flat in Seine-Saint-Denis identified

The suicide bomber who blew himself up on November 18th 2015 in the flat on the Rue Corbillon in the Saint-Denis district of Greater Paris was identified as being Chakib Akrouh. So said the Paris Prosecutor's Office in a press release on Thursday. Chakib Akrouh, who was born on August 27th 1990, was a Belgian Moroccan national.

The Prosecutor's Office stated, “This identification occurred as a result of the DNA comparison between the DNA profile obtained for the suicide bomber Chakib Akrouh and that of his mother.”

(Source: Belga)


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