Pursuits
Paris Terror Leader Planned Second Attack as Accomplices Hunted
- Prosecutor Molins said Abaaoud was going to blow himself up
- In Brussels, judge issues arrest warrant for fugitive's driver
Found Paris Suicide Vest Examined for Clues
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As Belgium issued an arrest warrant for a new suspect in the Paris attacks, prosecutors in Paris revealed that the alleged ringleader had visited the Bataclan concert hall crime scene and planned to blow himself up with an accomplice in the capital’s largest district.
The harrowing details of the further carnage plotted by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, identified as the mastermind of the Nov. 13 massacre, emerged during a Tuesday news conference with Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. In Brussels, the hunt was on for 30-year-old Mohamed Abrini, who was seen driving a car with fugitive Salah Abdeslam two days before the shootings and bombings that killed 130 people.