A French judicial official says that investigators are trying to verify whether a leading suspect in the November 13 Paris attacks bought about 10 detonators at a specialized store outside Paris in September or October.
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French and Belgian intelligence services have been hunting for the fugitive, with numerous raids in Belgium and Paris.
But investigators are now working on the basis that Abdeslam, Europe’s most wanted man, has made it back into Syria, according to CNN.
The scene outside the Stade de France in Paris after a suicide bomber attacked the stadium during a soccer match.
He was last spotted in a suburb of Brussels after a man by the name of Ali Oulkadi said that he picked up a friend, accompanied by Abdeslam, from the subway, one day after the attacks.
During the ride, Abdeslam allegedly hinted he had a sinister link to the Paris attacks.
“The possibility that Salah Abdeslam might have been taking his ease in a public place in the Belgian capital is problematic for authorities who already let him slip through their net when he departed France”. Although Abdeslam’s auto was stopped three times after the attacks including near the Belgian border, police let him go because he was not on their wanted list at the time.
A “particularly nervous” Salah Abdeslam did however tell Oulkadi during the drive that Brahim “had killed people and blew himself up” during the gun and bomb attacks, Martins said.
‘For my client, a childhood friend of the two brothers, it was a shock, He could not understand it and could not think clearly’.
An global arrest warrant issued for Abdeslam just days after the attacks described him as 5 feet 7 inches tall and “dangerous”.
According to Olivier Martins, Ali O’s lawyer, his client received a call from a friend at around 1pm on the 14 of November.
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It comes as German prosecutors confirmed they are investigating whether a man they have in custody sold four assault rifles used in Paris.
