How did Mostefai
The quiet of this bucolic French town, known for centuries for its historic and majestic medieval cathedral, has been shattered by the discovery that a former resident helped carry out one of the worst terrorist attacks in French history.
Ismael Omar Mostefai, 29, lived here quietly for years, before he was identified as one of the attackers who brutally massacred dozens of Paris concertgoers with a Kalashnikov before blowing himself in the crowd with a suicide bomber's vest.
Mostefai, Parisians learned, was identified through a gruesome find. He was literally "fingered" by a fingerprint, pulled from a severed finger, found in the carnage of body parts in the concert hall, according to investigators.
The Bataclan massacre, as it is now known, was just one wave of the eight terrorist strikes across Paris on Friday night, bringing horror and darkness to the fabled city.
The series of terrorist attacks left at least 129 dead and scores more wounded, many of them still in critical condition.
Perhaps as shocking as the crimes committed was where Mostefai had been a resident. Far from being any sort of poor or impoverished area, Chartres is a scenic tourist spot, with narrow cobbled streets and stunning vistas. It is about 50 miles southwest of Paris.
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