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Salah Abdeslam stopped by French police at Belgian border, then allowed to go on
2015-11-16
French detectives questioned one of the jihadis behind Friday's terror attacks as he crossed the Belgian border and let him go after he showed them his ID card.

Officers pulled over Salah Abdelsam on Saturday morning on the A2 motorway between Paris and Brussels. He was travelling with two other people, just hours after he abandoned a car containing three Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles on the outskirts of the French capital.

Detectives soon realised their blunder when they discovered that Abdeslam had rented VW Polo abandoned near the scene of the massacre inside the Bataclan theatre. However, by the time they alerted Belgian authorities, the jihadi had abandoned the car in the jihadi stronghold of Molenbeek, Brussels and disappeared.

An international manhunt has been launched.
It'll have to be international, too, because Abdeslam is no longer in Europe...
French security officials have admitted that Abdeslam was one of three men inside the car which had been stopped on the border on Saturday morning. Officers in Paris had already identified Salah Abdeslam as a person of interest but that information had not been transmitted to those responsible for conducting the border checks.
Posted by:Steve White

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