Wednesday, November 25, 2015: A new line of inquiry has opened up in the search for the terrorists responsible for the Paris attacks. Salah Abdelsalam, one of the suspects still at large, is now considered one of the terrorists who was supposed to be involved in the attack on November 13.
A suicide vest was found during a raid in the Paris suburb of Montrouge, and police now suspect it belonged to the escapee, Abdelsalam. This has opened up a new line of questions for the police as investigations proceed and the hunt for the man in question continues.
The raid was conducted by the French police on a tip that some of the terrorists were hiding in the area. The vest, as suspected, belongs to Abdelsalam, despite suspicions he had fled Belgium for Germany after a raid in the industrial area near the Belgian capital of Brussels. The first question that arises is how he was present in Belgium and France within a time frame of 24 hours, when he was suspected to have fled to Germany.
The vest, which was found in a garbage can in Montrouge, at least answers one question raised by the video posted by Islamic State. The video claimed responsibility for the Parisian attacks and included one attack in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, which did not happen.
The suicide jacket found in Montrouge suggests it was the one that was supposed to be used in 18th arrondissement. However, it raises the question of why it was not used and why the plan was abandoned. ISIS clearly did not know the 18th arrondissement attack had been abandoned, as they mentioned it in the video.
“Our investigation on that is still ongoing, to determine if Salah was planning on a suicide attack in the 18th arrondissement and why it didn’t happen,” Molins said.
Was Abdelsalam planning to run away from the attacks? Is he running away because he would be prosecuted as an active accomplice in the attack? These questions raise red flags on the nature of the manhunt.
The local municipality has said that the garbage bins are cleared once or twice a week. Therefore, the time of the dumping of the jacket in the bin can be narrowed down to the time and day it was last cleared.
The discovery of the jacket also raises another question. Was it actually Abdelsalam or someone else who was planning to blow the vest in 18th arrondissement? And are police looking for the wrong person as the owner of the vest? If that is the case, then there are more than two people who police need to be looking for, as Abdelsalam was suspected to have fled to Germany after the raid in Brussels.
Another prime runaway of the Paris attacks is Mohamad Abrini, who has so far been identified as the driver who dropped off one of the suicide bombers at Stade de France. His description has been promulgated Europe-wide as well, but so far, there have been no recent sightings reported.
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