Strolling with a friend, new film shows Paris most wanted day after attacks

A French TV station has released security footage it says is of the Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam the day after the deadly attacks. The new pictures were taken at around 9.45am on 14 November and show Abdeslam with his friend Hamza Attou at a petrol station near the Belgian border. Abdeslam, a native of Brussels, is believed to have played a key logistical role in the 13 November attacks in which 130 people were killed. His older brother Brahim was a suicide bomber. Police have already said that Abdeslam called two friends Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou in Brussels earlier that morning to ask if they could collect him from the French capital and bring him back to Brussels.

If we knew where he was, we’d catch him.

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt

The three men were stopped near the border by French police but then released, as Abdeslam had not yet been connected to the French attacks. Abdeslam, 26, arrived in Brussels later that day, was met by someone else and then police admit they “lost him”. Both Amri and Attou were arrested in Molenbeek the next day, and are now facing terror charges.

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