REPORT: Paris Terrorists Were “Fake Refugees”

All of Teabagistan is celebrating with “we told you” headlines this morning after French authorities revealed that at least two of the Paris terrorists had gained entry to the country by posing as Syrian refugees. The Daily Mail reports:

It is believed two of the bombers were carrying Syrian passports. At least two others are believed to be French while several could also be Belgian. Prosecutors in Brussels have said two attackers killed in Paris were Frenchmen who lived in the Belgian capital and that two vehicles used in the terror attack were rented in Belgium. The disclosure that some may have entered Europe as migrants, which came amid claims of French intelligence failures, inevitably raises new security concerns about the safety of Europe’s borders.

Ahmed Almuhamed is believed to have taken around a month to travel to France posing as a migrant. By October 7, he had entered Serbia at Miratovce, having crossed the frontier from Macedonia. The newspaper reported that Almuhamed, applied for asylum in Serbia in Presevo before crossing into Croatia and Austria. Paris prosecutors confirmed that the suspects, all wearing explosive vests, roamed across the French capital in three teams, perpetrating the ‘worst acts of violence’ in the country since the Second World War. Fingerprint records show that two of the terrorists had arrived in the EU as refugees through Greece.

A Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen who struck at the Stade de France showed the holder, who was born in 1990, had passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3. On October 5 they used their Syrian passports to travel to the port of Piraeus on Mainland Greece before arriving in Serbia on October 7. It is still not yet clear if the Syrian passport is fake or real, or if it belonged to the dead bomber. European officials say there is a brisk trade in fake Syrian passports to help people get refugee status in the EU.

The Guardian notes that the attacks have given an opening for France’s neo-Nazi National Front Party to make “historic gains” in next month’s regional elections.