Salah Abdeslam

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Image of a surveillance camera at a French petrol station showing Salah Abdeslam a few hours after the Paris attacks

Salah Abdeslam ( Arabic صلاح عبد السلام, DMG Ṣalāḥ ʿAbd as-Salām ; * September 15, 1989 in Brussels , Belgium ) is an Islamist French terrorist of Moroccan descent who is considered one of the prime suspects in the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris . A total of 130 people were murdered in the coordinated attacks. The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the worst series of attacks in French history . Abdeslam was known to the police for drug offenses . After the attacks in Paris, he was wanted by international arrest warrant . He was caught on March 18, 2016 in the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek . On April 27, 2016, he was extradited from Belgium to France . In a police raid three days before his arrest, he was one of three terrorist suspects who shot at the police, for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on April 23, 2018 in Brussels for attempted terrorist murder. The actual terror process follows later in Paris.

Life

Salah Abdeslam's family comes from Morocco . His father was born in 1949 in Oran in what was then French Algeria and lived for a while in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers . This gave him French citizenship , which his wife and five children also acquired. The family has lived in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean / Sint-Jans-Molenbeek , a municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region , which is known as the “Islamist stronghold”, since the 1960s . Salah has two brothers, Ibrahim and Mohamed. Abdeslam had been friends with Abdelhamid Abaaoud , who would later be alleged to have planned the attacks in Paris , since childhood . He lost his job as a mechanic at STIB / MIVB , where he worked from September 2009 to 2011, due to frequent absences. In 2010 and 2011 he is said to have committed various crimes together with Abdelhamid Abaaoud in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

After his older brother Ibrahim Abdeslam (* 1984) took over the management of a bar in Molenbeek in March 2013, Salah joined the bar in December 2013 as a licensee , which was mainly frequented by migrants from the Maghreb and their descendants . In November 2015, authorities closed the place because visitors were using illegal hallucinogenic substances .

On October 29, 2015, Belgian authorities reported Salah Abdeslam and his brother Ibrahim to the international police authority Interpol , the Schengen Information System and the EU police authority Europol as potential jihad fighters ( threats ). Ibrahim Abdeslam was one of the perpetrators of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris; He lit the explosives vest on his body in a café (details here ).

Attacks on November 13, 2015

Salah Abdeslam is said to have rented the black VW Polo in Belgium , which was seen in front of the Bataclan concert hall during the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris , in which several assassins killed at least 89 people. He is also said to have driven the assassins at the Stade de France to the crime scene in a Renault Clio . On November 14, 2015, Salah Abdeslam and two other men were checked by the police in Cambrai in northern France as part of the tightened border controls. At the time of the vehicle inspection, his name was not noticed during the inspection. The investigators only brought him into connection with the attacks later and on November 15, 2015, he was listed for an international search.

Arrest and interrogation

On March 15, 2016, police found Salah Abdeslam's hiding place in the Forest / Vorst municipality in Brussels . During the raid, there was an exchange of fire in which three officers were injured. A suspect, the 35-year-old Algerian Mohamed Belkaïd, died. Three days later, Abdeslam was arrested in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, just 300 meters from his parents' home, after escaping for 126 days. He himself was slightly injured in the leg and was temporarily admitted to a clinic. Investigators arrested a total of five suspects, including a family with whom Salah Abdeslam was hiding. The family denied knowing anything about the attacks.

During his interrogation, Abdeslam named Abdelhamid Abaaoud as the planner of the attacks . He himself rented the hotel rooms and vehicles on behalf of his brother and drove the suicide bombers to the stadium. He threw away his own explosives belt. Mohamed Amri and Hamza Attou, who were later arrested, then brought him to Belgium. On March 20, 2016, investigators announced that he had apparently planned further attacks. In addition, "heavy weapons" were found on him.

Shortly after his arrest, the terrorist attacks took place in Brussels on March 22, 2016 .

At the end of March 2016, Abdeslam's extradition to France was authorized by a court order. Abdeslam had requested this himself and wanted to work with the French authorities. On April 27, 2016, he was extradited from Belgium to France .

process

On February 5, 2018, the first trial against Abdeslam began in Brussels, where he and Sofien Ayari had to answer for the shooting on March 15, 2016 in Forest / Vorst. He was accused of attempted murder and illegal possession of weapons as part of a terrorist organization. At the start of the trial, he refused to testify and refused to rise. On April 23, 2018, a chamber of the Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles sentenced Abdeslam to 20 years in prison. This sentence was requested by the public prosecutor.

Web links

Commons : Salah Abdeslam  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Yann Thompson, Kocila Makdeche: Enquete. Drogue, prison et Ligue des champions: sur la trace des frères Abdeslam. francetvinfo.fr , November 18, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Ben Farmer: Who were the terrorists? Everything we know about the Isil attackers so far. The Telegraph , November 20, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Paris attacks: footage shows moment shooting starts in Bataclan theater - video. In: The Guardian . November 15, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Anne Barker: Salah Abdeslam: The former bar manager now on the run as one of the world's most wanted terrorists. Australian Broadcasting Corporation , November 18, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ The mastermind behind the attacks: Federal police let Abaaoud travel to Turkey. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 19, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Terror brothers Abdeslam known to Interpol before attacks . ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Südtirol Online , December 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ The logistician of the Paris attacks provides information Die Zeit online, March 20, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2016.
  8. ↑ Attacks in Paris: Police apparently checked terrorist suspects and let them go . Spiegel Online , November 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ Abdeslam in court - “I'm not afraid of you” Die Welt, February 5, 2018
  10. ^ Counter-terrorism mission in Brussels: Suspected Paris attacker Abdeslam caught. Spiegel Online , March 18, 2016, accessed March 18, 2016 .
  11. ^ Salah Abdeslam: Paris assassin is to be extradited to France. In: Zeit Online . March 19, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Salah Abdeslam relativizes his role time online, March 26, 2016, accessed on March 27, 2016.
  13. ↑ Terrorist investigations in Belgium: Abdeslam planned further attacks. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
  14. ^ Belgium extradites Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam. BBC News, April 27, 2016, accessed April 27, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Trial of alleged top terrorist Abdeslam opened in Zeit Online, February 5, 2018.
  16. ↑ Sofien Ayari refuse d'être présent à la prochaine audience le 29 mars. In: Lalibre.de , February 8, 2018.
  17. ↑ Salah Abdeslam convicted of shooting police officers. In: Zeit online , April 23, 2018.
  18. ↑ Thomas Kirchner: Guilt and sparrows. In: SZ.de , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Abdeslam, Salah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salah, Abdeslam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French suspected terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels