Paris attacks: Who is Omar Ismail Mostefai? First terrorist behind atrocity identified by severed finger

The first Jihadi suicide bomber named in connection with the Paris terrorist attacksthat left at least 129 people dead has been named as Omar Ismail Mostefai, who was identified by his finger.

The digit was found among the carnage of the Bataclan concert hall, where the 29-year-old was one of three men who blew himself up killing 89 men, women and children

Born on 21 November 1985, in the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, Mostefai’s criminal record shows eight convictions for petty crimes between 2004 and 2010.

Although he had never spent any time in jail, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Mostefai had been picked out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in 2010.

But before Friday, Mostefai had ‘never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association”.

Investigators are now investigating claims that he went to Syria last year, and may have spent time with IS terrorists.

One of the Paris attackers entered into Europe as a Syrian migrant via Greece

One of the bombers who carried out the Paris terrorist attacks entered Europe as a Syrian migrant, according to foreign officials.

French authorities matched the remains of one of the suicide bombers from the Friday attacks to a Syrian passport that was used to apply for asylum in Europe, says Greek minister for citizen protection Nikos Toskas.

He said in a press statement, as cited by AFP: 

"We confirm that the (Syrian) passport holder came through the Greek island of Leros on October 3, where he was registered under EU rules."

A group of seven attackers who broke off into teams of three carried out bombings and shooting attacks across Paris on Friday evening, killing 129 people and injuring more than 300, the Paris prosecutor said Saturday. The terrorist group ISIS (also known as the Islamic State) has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Daycare Workers Fired For Refusing To Acknowledge Toddler As Transgender

Attorneys are now filing a lawsuit on behalf of two women who claim that they were wrongfully fired from a daycare center which demanded that they refer to a six-year-old girl as a transgendered boy.

Madeline Kirksey, a Christian author, says that she was terminated as the manager of the Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center because she would not go along with parents who’d decided to recognize their daughter as a boy. Her co-worker, Akesha Wyatt, was also let go for the same reason.

Houston, TX, attorney, Andy Taylor, who is most famous for his victory after challenging Houston’s HERO issue, is now taking a stance against their termination.

“This case involves a little 6-year-old girl who has been attending a private school in Katy, Texas for the last four months as a little girl.  She has parents who are a same-sex couple, two men, who decided that she was transgender,” Taylor said Tuesday afternoon at a news conference. “On Friday, that little girl left school. I’m not going to use names, but (she was) known to everybody as ‘Sally,’ and on Monday, this little girl returns to school calling herself ‘Johnny.'”

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San Francisco tour bus crashes, injuring 20 people

What began as a serene tour through one of the nation’s most picturesque cities turned into a two-block ride of terror when an open-air tour bus careened wildly out of control in San Francisco’s Union Square, running down a bicyclist, striking two pedestrians and smashing into several moving cars before it plowed into scaffolding lining a construction site.

Twenty people were hurt, six critically, when the big blue bus with at least 30 people aboard raced through one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations Friday afternoon, leaving chaos and carnage in its wake.

“Everybody was asking what’s going on,” said Bay Area resident Hoda Emam, who rounded a corner leading into Union Square moments after the bus struck the scaffolding, bringing it down in a twisted heap of metal and other debris.

She saw paramedics sprinting toward the injured while emergency vehicles pulled up with their sirens blaring.

Hollande says Paris attacks an ‘act of war’ by Islamic State group

Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Saturday, French President François Hollande accused the Islamic State (IS) group of conducting a series of attacks in and around Paris late Friday that left at least 127 people dead.

Speaking from the Elysée presidential palace the morning after France saw its worst day of violence since World War II, Hollande said the attacks were “an act of war" committed by the Islamic State group’s "terrorist army”.

The French president said the atrocities were, “against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet."

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group claimed responsibility on Saturday for the series of apparently coordinated attacks in and around Paris.

Here's what it's like in Paris today

Paris is mourning after 129 people were killed in a wave of terrorist attacks on Friday night and into Saturday morning. 

Dina Spector, an editor at Business Insider's London bureau, reported from the French capital and took photos at the Avenue de la Republique

The largest signs of grief and gathering are at the Place de la Republique, a square in Paris located on the border between the 10th and 11th arrondissements, where two of the shootings occurred.