French
detectives questioned one of the jihadis behind Friday's terror attacks
as he crossed the Belgian border and let him go after he showed them his
ID card.
Officers
pulled over Salah Abdelsam on Saturday morning on the A2 motorway
between Paris and Brussels. He was travelling with two other people,
just hours after he abandoned a car containing three Kalashnikov AK-47
assault rifles on the outskirts of the French capital.
Detectives
soon realised their blunder when they discovered that Abdeslam had
rented VW Polo abandoned near the scene of the massacre inside the
Bataclan theatre.
However,
by the time they alerted Belgian authorities the terror suspect had
abandoned the car in Molenbeek, Brussels, an area known as the 'jihadi
capital of Europe' and disappeared. An international manhunt has been
launched.
French
security officials have admitted that Abdeslam was one of three men
inside the car which had been stopped on the border on Saturday morning.
Officers in Paris had already identified Salah Abdeslam as a person of
interest but that information had not been transmitted to those
responsible for conducting the border checks.
Abdeslam's brother
Ibrahim, 31, blew himself up in a solo attack outside cafe Comptoir
Voltaire. He had rented a black Seat. That car was found with with
AK-47s and ammunition in the Paris suburb of Montreuil. A third brother,
named Mohamad has been arrested in the Belgian capital.
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