FIRST PICTURE OF ISIS TERRORIST SHOT DEAD IN PARIS AS HE STORMED A POLICE STATION

Tarek Belgacem, a Tunisian in his 30s, was a refugee who had been living in Germany

This is the first picture of the ISIS terrorist shot dead in Paris last week as he stormed a police station was an asylum seeker.

Tarek Belgacem, a Tunisian in his 30s, was a refugee who had been living in Germany.

He was killed while wearing a fake suicide vest when he attacked police officers on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo atrocity .

German police who raided the man’s home in an asylum centre in Recklinghausen found an ISIS symbol scrawled on the wall of his room.

Sources in both Germany and France said he lived there until recently waiting for the result of his submitted asylum application.

A source close to the investigation into Belgacem’s death said: “He was a registered asylum seeker who used a number of different identities to argue his case.

“After Germany he made his way to France, and was thought to be sleeping rough on the streets of Paris when he committed the attack .

“His asylum application was still being considered.

“There was no indication in Germany that he was a criminal who might commit violent attacks.”

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the man was in possession of a flag commonly associated with the Islamic State group as well as a note pledging revenge for French airstrikes in Syria.

German authorities said the man had four different aliases with different backgrounds including Moroccan.

The man’s links to a German refugee shelter will further inflame the debate on asylum seekers, coming as it does after the New Year’s Eve sexual assaults on dozens of women in Cologne and other German cities by refugees and other foreign immigrants.