Sole surviving Paris terrorist not questioned on future plans
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Belgian police officers detain a man at the Gare du Midi train station in Brussels after terror attacks on March 22, 2016.
Salah Abdeslam, a detained suspect implicated in Paris terror, was not even asked by Belgian investigators about future attacks coordinated by ISIL Takfiri group, extracts from the transcript of his interrogation indicate.
Obtained by French daily Le Monde, the documents seem to show that deadly bombings at the airport and aboard a metro train in Brussels could have been prevented if Abdeslam had been pushed about future attacks.
Three days before more than 30 people were killed in the EU’s de facto capital, Abdeslam was shown pictures of the brothers who committed suicide bombings in Brussels later.
The Belgian national denied all knowledge of Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui and was not further questioned in this regard, the leaked transcript of his two hour interrogation suggests.
“The transcript will give weight to allegation that Belgian police missed a possible opportunity to obtain advance information on the Brussels bombings this week,” the Independent concluded in a report covering the story.
In regard to Paris attacks which left over 130 dead, Abdeslam admitted that he backed out of his suicide bombing at the Stade de France.
His decision was faced with fury from Mohamed Belkaid, one of the presumed leaders of the Paris attacks killed in Brussels by police earlier this month.
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