Police stopped car carrying Europe’s most wanted man 3 times, getaway driver says

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam threatened to blow up the car of two men who drove him to Belgium in the hours after the atrocities, a Belgian police source has told the AFP news agency. The car carrying Abdeslam, Europe’s most wanted fugitive, was stopped three times following the the deadly assaults but each time allowed on its way. He is still at large following the coordinated shooting and suicide bombings that killed 130 people on 13 November. Hamza Attou and Mohamed Amri have been arrested after they gave Abdeslam a lift to Brussels following the assaults. When they picked him up, they said he was “agitated… uneasy… unwell”, the source said.

He told us to take him back to Brussels or he would blow up the car.

Driver Hamza Attou

As they drove to Belgium, Abdeslam apparently bragged to them about killing people with a Kalashnikov and told how his older brother had blown himself up. Brahim Abdeslam, 31, detonated his suicide vest outside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe on Boulevard Voltaire during the assaults. The car was stopped on minor roads on three occasions but the trio were allowed on their way. The new details emerged as Belgian police arrested five people, including two brothers, in connection with the Paris attacks following a series of raids in Brussels.

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