PARIS: The third man who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Nov. 13 has been identified as a 23-year-old French national who went to Syria two years ago, according to officials involved in the inquiry into the multiple attacks on the French capital.

Investigators identified Foued Mohamed-Aggad as one of three Islamist gunmen who killed 90 people at the Bataclan after his mother told them that she had been informed of his death by text message from Syria, a lawyer for the dead man’s family said.

Two of the three attackers killed themselves by exploding their suicide vests and another was shot dead by police.

Officials have yet to put names to all of eight dead gunmen and suicide bombers directly involved in last month’s attacks, for which Daesh, a militant group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, claimed responsibility.

They managed to identify Mohamed-Aggad after being alerted by his mother and then matching her DNA to his.

“The SMS message told her that her son had died, saying: “He died on Nov. 13 with his brothers,” said Francoise Cotta, lawyer for the mother and her family, who said the woman got the text message 10 days ago.

“She was instantly struck by the horrific thought that he might have been one of the Bataclan suicide attackers,” said Cotta, adding that she was asked by the dead man’s mother to get in touch with investigators.

Mohamed-Aggad went to Syria in late 2013 with a gang of others from his neighborhood in an area outside the eastern French city of Strasbourg. Seven of the group were arrested in May 2014 after returning to France.

It remained unclear when and how Mohamed-Aggad returned to France, where intelligence services are under scrutiny over their monitoring of the movements of home-grown jihadists.

His older brother Karim, who also went to Syria, is in jail in France, the officials said.

The father of the third gunman said Wednesday he would “have killed” his son had he known what he was planning.

Said Mohamed-Aggad said he only found out on Wednesday, with the rest of the nation, that his 23-year-old son Foued was among the three gunmen who sprayed concert-goers with assault rifles.

“Of course I’m surprised,” he told reporters outside his home in Bischheim, a suburb of the northeastern city Strasbourg.

Had he known his son was planning to take part in the jihadist rampage, “I would have killed him myself beforehand,” he said.

The other two attackers at the concert hall have been named as Samy Amimour, 28, from Drancy, north east of Paris, and Ismail Omar Mostefai, 29, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who lived for a time in Chartres, south west of Paris.

Another Nov. 13 attacker, Salah Abdeslam, 26, French and born in Brussels, is still on the run.

Meanwhile, a top French court has rejected a couple’s complaint that the government was responsible for allowing their teenage daughter to travel to Syria without their permission.

In a ruling Wednesday, the court upheld France’s decision from 2012 to allow minors to leave the country without their parents’ authorization. Many parents have called for the law to be changed, saying they didn’t learn about their children’s radicalization until after they had left the country.

The parents of the girl, who was 17 when she left in March 2014, learned she had joined Daesh only after she had hopped on a plane to Istanbul. The panel ruled that the state was not responsible and that her passport raised no legal flags when it was checked at the Marseille airport.