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Paris attacks: the brothers linked to terror in France

The lame disguise is created to evade capture from European security forces since his role in slaughtering 89 concert goers at the Bataclan theatre.

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One of their friends told a special documentary for France 2 he heard the two brothers fighting outside his house last Thursday.

Other items were being analysed to discover if they had been used to make explosive belts.

“I had no intention of going to Syria, I just wanted to go to Istanbul”, he allegedly stated.

Abdeslam said he anxious ISIS might go after his family, too.

“I met Salah on Tuesday night”.

Mohammed Abdeslam later spoke outside the family home, saying: “My family and I had no idea that they were in Paris”.

“We want to show our respects because we’re also shocked by the events, and we’re also shocked that it’s linked with Molenbeek”.

French authorities have not yet commented on the RTVE report.

His younger brother was briefly arrested and fined in the Netherlands in February for possession of cannabis, Dutch police revealed. You can not have the slightest doubt that they have been prepared, that they must not leave any trace which would cause suspicion that they might do such things.

President Francois Hollande, who was at the game, described the attacks as “An act of War” and said France’s reaction would be pitiless.

He was always on the computer at the cafe watching IS videos, according to the friends.

However, he could not be detained because “we didn’t have proof that he took part in the activities of a terrorist group”, he added.

The two brothers were friends with the ringleader of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud – who was killed in a siege on Wednesday – as they grew up on the same street in Molenbeek.

In the hours after the atrocities, Salah Abdeslam was stopped in a vehicle and questioned by officers, but was released by mistake.

Ibrahim reportedly rented the auto used in the attacks, which was later found abandoned and stocked with weapons.

Abdeslam was one of three brothers thought to have been involved in carnage, which also left more than 350 people injured, 90 of whom are still critical.

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