Daily Times

VIENNA: Austria has handed over to France two suspected members of the same Islamic State militant group that massacred 130 people in Paris last November, the prosecutors said on Friday.

The Algerian and the Pakistani men, now aged 29 and 35 respectively, and who had not been named, were arrested in Austria in December. The Austrian and French authorities believed that they travelled to Greece along with two men involved in the November 13 atrocities, posing as refugees.

While the eventual assailants continued on to France, these two were detained by the Greek authorities for 25 days because they had falsified Syrian passports. Once let go, they made it to Salzburg at the end of November, after the Paris atrocities, and Austrian police arrested them at a migrant centre on December 10.

Following a French request, a court in Salzburg in western Austria approved at the beginning of July their transfer to France. “Both suspects have now left the country,” the prosecutors said.