The 32-year-old French, the main accused, said the instruction of Abdelhamid Abaaoud – the operating leader of the attacks – to be exploded in a bar of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, had been “a shock”.
Le Monde and AFP
The main accused at the trial of the attacks of 13-November, Salah Abdeslam, affirmed, Wednesday, April 13, returned to a café in Paris, the evening of the attacks, with his explosive belt, and have “given up” to Explode.
“I’m going home, I’m going to order a drink, I’m going to look at people around me and I thought,” No, I’m not going to do it, “said the only member still alive commandos, during his last interrogation in front of the Paris Special Assize Court.
32-year-old French had exercised his right to silence, during his previous interrogation, on March 30th. “It’s because I did not feel listening,” launched Salah Abdeslam, blue and white striped polo and dark vest on the back. “I’m going back, I’m going to explain to me because it’s the last time I’ll have the opportunity to do it,” added the main accused.
Updated two days before The attacks
In the room, his ad was welcomed by sighs of relief. “All the people, here, need my answers. I do not promise anything, I’ll do my best,” said Salah Abdeslam. It began by explaining to have been made aware of the Abdelhamid Abaaoud attacks, the operational leader of these jihadist attacks on November 11, 2015.
“He will tell me the project, not the targets, but tell me that will have to wear an explosive belt and blow up,” he detailed standing in the box. “Me, I had to go to Syria,” Salah Abdeslam assured. “When he told me” you’re going to blow you up “, it’s a shock for me. I’ll end up accepting,” he continued.
The evening of November 13, 2015, “I’m going out and I’m going to go to the goal that I have set me”, a bar of 18 E Arrondissement of Paris, commented the main accused. After “renounced”, he “took over the car” with which he had conveyed the three kamikazes at the Stade de France, but it “broke down,” he said.
He then spent several hours in Paris and in his near suburb, before two friends come and pick him up and bring him back to Brussels, where he will be arrested four months later, on March 18, 2016.