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| Paris attacks: Salah Abdeslam 'changed suicide bomb plan' | |
| 2016-03-20 | |
| [BBC] Gay Paree attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has admitted he wanted to blow himself up but then changed his mind, a French prosecutor says. Abdeslam has been charged with terrorism offences in Belgium a day after he was seized in a dramatic raid. Abdeslam will fight extradition to La Belle France but has been co-operating with police, his lawyer says. The Gay Paree attacks in November left 130 people dead and dozens injured. The so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group said it was behind the bombings and shootings. Abdeslam is charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says. Gay Paree prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference: "Salah Abdeslam today during questioning by [Belgian] Sherlocks affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de La Belle France and that he had backed down'." Abdeslam's assertions should be treated with caution, he added. The 26-year-old French national, born in Belgium, is in jug following his arrest in Brussels on Friday after four months on the run. Investigators hope Abdeslam, who was shot in the leg during his arrest, will reveal more information about the IS network behind the Gay Paree attacks, its financing and plans. They believe he helped with logistics, including renting rooms and driving jacket wallahs to the Stade de La Belle France. Abdeslam is believed to have fled shortly after the attacks, returning to the Molenbeek district of Brussels.
Two others who had been implicated in sheltering Abdeslam were released Saturday by police, even though one of them was charged with hiding criminals. | |
| Posted by:Fred |