salah ablutionsole survivor of jihadist commandos Killed 130 people in Paris and Saint Denis On November 13, 2015, at the hearing of that massacre this Wednesday, he confessed: their purpose was to cause a new eruption in the 18th district. of the French capital.
This confession is corroborated by the claim made by ISIS on the day of the attacks that speak of a fourth action in that neighborhood of Paris.
Despite everything, the main culprit of the process broke the silence on matters he had not clarified in previous inquiries. As the accused was about to ask about his escape from Paris on the last day of his departure, he said to the presiding judge, “I will speak. (…) You can ask me the above.” be questioned.
Abdeslam said that it was his brother Brahim, one of the suicide bombers in the Bataclan concert hall, who said there was a commission for him, but that his special commission was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was the mastermind of the massacre. without telling him beforehand. Although he stated his purpose at first, would be in France. He also gave himself an explosive belt the day before the attacks: “It came as a surprise to me. i wanted to go Syriabut he finally convinced me“.
He went to the cafe where he was going to attack with his brother Brahim the day before from the apartment they rented in Bobigny, east of Paris, and on November 13, he also told him, was to buy the suicides from the Stade de France. That same day, he traveled by car to explore the area in advance.
After dropping two suicide bombers at the Stade de France on the day of the attacks, he went to the 18th district north of the capital. I had to go to a cafe, buy a drink and pop the belt.. “I parked the car, went into the cafe, sat down, ordered a drink. I thought, looked around and realized that I couldn’t. Then I went back to the car,” he said.
a few kilometers later vehicle broke down and continued on foot, before getting in a taxi, you can go to a quiet area and exit the explosive belt. It ended a few days later in Montrouge, south of Paris, where the piece was located. He said he placed it in a secret place so that no one could use it there and removed the detonation mechanism.
Later on hiding in an abandoned house, received a phone call and called his friend Mohamed Amri, who was in Belgium to pick it up. He did it, he said, because it was the only number he knew by heart.
Abdeslam reiterated that he did not know of the other targets, that he knew that his brother was part of the commandos. I did not know against whom they were directed.. After his escape to Belgium, he went into hiding for four months before being arrested on March 18, 2016.