The revelation came as Belgium issued an global arrest warrant for a man seen in a auto before the Paris attacks with Salah Abdeslam, the Brussels resident wanted over his suspected involvement in the 13 November killings.
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Abrini, 30, was driving a Renault Clio later used by the attackers, prosecutors said.
Molins reportedly said that mobile phone data showed Abaaoud, who was killed on November 18 during the raid in an apartment in Saint-Denis, was near the Bataclan theater while the attacks were still underway and police were storming the scene and freeing hostages.
Mr Molins said Abaaoud, the Belgian suspected of being behind the attacks, had been traced to the metro after the attack at the Bataclan but had returned to the area shortly afterwards.
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The suspected ringleader of the deadly Paris attacks and an accomplice planned to carry out a suicide attack on the city’s La Defense business district the following week, the chief prosecutor said Tuesday.
Information obtained on November 19 suggested “that the two attackers – Abaaoud and the man we found by his side in the apartment – were planning an attack consisting of blowing themselves up at La Defense either on Wednesday the 18th or Thursday the 19th”. Bendaoud acknowledged giving shelter to two people from Belgium but said he didn’t know who they were or what they planned.
Bendaoud also said he had no idea one of his guests may have masterminded the November 13 attacks.
Belgian authorities also charged a fifth person in connection with the attacks, following the arrest of a number of people in Brussels and the eastern city of Liege. The prosecutor’s office said Mohamed Abrini as caught on film with Abdeslam in a gas station on the highway to Paris.
He was to be either charged or released Tuesday.
“Indeed, there were indications that there would be attacks on Sunday evening and they did not materialize”, Jambon said.
The reopening of schools and some subway stations is restoring a sense of normality to Brussels, parts of which have been deserted since the alert was first raised.
Annelaure Leger, a mother of two children, said: “I’m not very concerned because if (the government) lets children go to school again, then things must be okay”. Both men are now subjects of global manhunts. Investigators later found a pistol, grenade fragments and two explosive vests in the apartment.
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The suicide vest found on Monday south of Paris was still being analyzed but it was of the same type as those used by the other suicide bombers during the attacks, Molins added.
