Paris suspect visited cafe after attacks
“He did not know it was Salah and did not recognize him immediately when he arrived because he was wearing a cap”, Martins said.
The brother of a suspected gunman of the Paris terror attacks, who presented himself as squeaky clean in the aftermath of the massacre, has a criminal record for robbing the personal effects of dead people, it has emerged.
Oulkadi and Abdeslam were reportedly friends since childhood in Belgium, and it has been reported that the two met at a Brussels cafe where Abdeslam bragged about his involvement with the jihadi terror cell.
The following day the two men are believed to have visited a cafe in Brussels after being picked up by a friend.
The 24-year-old German man is suspected of delivering four Kalashnikov rifles to a Paris address, prosecutors said, adding that it is not clear who the man sold them to. His fingerprints, Molins stated, have been present in a auto connected with the assaults.
French police have issued an worldwide arrest warrant and a wanted poster for Abdeslam, describing him as highly risky.
Salah Abdeslam is believed to have helped drive some of the attackers to their Paris targets and may have meant to blow himself up – like brother Brahim – with an explosive vest which was found abandoned in a Paris suburb earlier this week.
“Oulkadi has only one wish – that Salah is arrested and that these things stop”, Martins said.
The sixth person was ordered Friday to be detained for 30 days.
Federal prosecutors said he is accused of terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist group. Their lawyers insist they had no knowledge of what Abdeslam was doing in Paris.
It is unknown what role if any Abrini played in the shootings. An ISIS claim of responsibility on November 14 referred to “eight brothers” when only seven had been involved in the attacks, according to police.
Salah Abdeslam was meant to be the eight suicide bomber but fled the city after taking part in the gun attacks on several restaurants and cafes.