14-02-2016, 10:17 PM
Mystery as DNA of Europe's top terror suspect not on discarded suicide vest
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...-vest.html
Police find no DNA traces of Salah Abdeslam, the fugitive terror suspect thought to have helped mastermind the Paris attacks, on a suicide belt they thought he discarded in Paris, as another mystery DNA found on two vests could be that of the bomb maker.
By Henry Samuel, Paris
1:54PM GMT 12 Feb 2016
The DNA of Salah Abdeslam, France's most wanted terror suspect, was not on an unused suicide belt discarded in a Paris rubbish bin, French investigators have confirmed, adding more mystery to who was involved in the November 13 attacks that killed 130.
However, DNA belonging to Bilal Hadfi, one of the Isil-affiliated suicide bombers who died outside the Stade de France, was found on the used belt.
It also emerged that unidentified DNA was found on the explosive vest used by Brahim Abeslam, Salah's brother, who blew himself up on the boulevard Voltaire. The same unknown DNA was found at a flat in the Belgian town of Auvelais used by some of the terrorists and rented under a false name.
The mystery DNA could belong to an unidentified bomb maker, French media suggested.
French Police released a new image of Salah Abdeslam in November, saying he is now thought to be wearing a wig and glasses and using the name "Yassine Baghli"
Abdeslam, 26, a Belgian-born French national, is thought to have been a member of the terror commandos that attacked Parisian bars and the Bataclan concert hall.
The suicide vest was found in Montrouge, a suburb South of Paris, not far from where investigators located Abdeslam's mobile phone signal on the night of the attacks.
According to investigators, after driving two suicide bombers to the Stade de France football stadium and apparently having second thoughts about launching an attack in the 18th arrondissement, Abdeslam then took the metro. He is thought to have spent the rest of the night walking around the Montrouge-Châtillon-Bagneux district from where he phoned his cousin telling him he was "in the sxxx".
Two of his friends, Mohamed Amri and Hamza Attou eventually drove from Brussels to pick him up the following morning before dropping him off in Brussels. He is still at large.
Despite the fact that his DNA was not detected on the discarded vest, investigators told AFP that one shouldn't "draw conclusions" from this, and that they cannot rule out the possibility that he wore it but no left no genetic traces.
A Europe-wide manhunt has been launched to find Abdeslam, who investigators believed was one of the chief organizers of the carnage.
There has been speculation he fled to Syria, but this week Belgian police launched an investigation after a witness told them he spotted the fugitive in a train station in the Belgian town of Genk.
French police have issued an international arrest warrant and described the 26-year-old as highly dangerous, warning anyone who comes across him not to approach him.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...-vest.html
Police find no DNA traces of Salah Abdeslam, the fugitive terror suspect thought to have helped mastermind the Paris attacks, on a suicide belt they thought he discarded in Paris, as another mystery DNA found on two vests could be that of the bomb maker.
By Henry Samuel, Paris
1:54PM GMT 12 Feb 2016
The DNA of Salah Abdeslam, France's most wanted terror suspect, was not on an unused suicide belt discarded in a Paris rubbish bin, French investigators have confirmed, adding more mystery to who was involved in the November 13 attacks that killed 130.
However, DNA belonging to Bilal Hadfi, one of the Isil-affiliated suicide bombers who died outside the Stade de France, was found on the used belt.
It also emerged that unidentified DNA was found on the explosive vest used by Brahim Abeslam, Salah's brother, who blew himself up on the boulevard Voltaire. The same unknown DNA was found at a flat in the Belgian town of Auvelais used by some of the terrorists and rented under a false name.
The mystery DNA could belong to an unidentified bomb maker, French media suggested.
French Police released a new image of Salah Abdeslam in November, saying he is now thought to be wearing a wig and glasses and using the name "Yassine Baghli"
Abdeslam, 26, a Belgian-born French national, is thought to have been a member of the terror commandos that attacked Parisian bars and the Bataclan concert hall.
The suicide vest was found in Montrouge, a suburb South of Paris, not far from where investigators located Abdeslam's mobile phone signal on the night of the attacks.
According to investigators, after driving two suicide bombers to the Stade de France football stadium and apparently having second thoughts about launching an attack in the 18th arrondissement, Abdeslam then took the metro. He is thought to have spent the rest of the night walking around the Montrouge-Châtillon-Bagneux district from where he phoned his cousin telling him he was "in the sxxx".
Two of his friends, Mohamed Amri and Hamza Attou eventually drove from Brussels to pick him up the following morning before dropping him off in Brussels. He is still at large.
Despite the fact that his DNA was not detected on the discarded vest, investigators told AFP that one shouldn't "draw conclusions" from this, and that they cannot rule out the possibility that he wore it but no left no genetic traces.
A Europe-wide manhunt has been launched to find Abdeslam, who investigators believed was one of the chief organizers of the carnage.
There has been speculation he fled to Syria, but this week Belgian police launched an investigation after a witness told them he spotted the fugitive in a train station in the Belgian town of Genk.
French police have issued an international arrest warrant and described the 26-year-old as highly dangerous, warning anyone who comes across him not to approach him.
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