This information was relayed after last Friday’s carnage, according to the source.
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‘He has been held for about one month now, ‘ the source said. So tomorrow, a lot of media outlets will be present to cover that highly important meeting as Paris reels from the terrorist attacks that killed 129 people last week. The source declined to give further details on the arrest.
HM King Mohammed VI on Saturday expressed solidarity with France in the wake of Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris where nearly 130 people were killed as a result of a series of co-ordinated gun and bomb attacks.
Thanks to the information provided by the Moroccan intelligence services, French police managed to locate Abaaoud and a female terrorist who was hiding with him in an apartment in Saint-Denis, in Paris suburb.
Sayeed Abaaoud, a cousin of Abdelhamid and a village elder and patriarch of the clan in, said the Paris killer had no rightful place on this earth, adding: We rejoice the news he is dead.
“The president thanked the King of Morocco for the efficient help given by Morocco following Friday’s attacks”, a French presidency statement said after the two met in Paris.
That cell was planning attacks using explosives, while its leader had close ties to Moroccans fighting with ISIS in order to obtain logistic support.
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As the Islamic State gunman sprayed the restaurant with bullets, a 20 year old waitress also ducked under the bar and wrapped her arms around an older, injured woman.
