Prosecutor says additional attacks were planned for Paris business district

Prosecutor says additional attacks were planned for Paris business district

An attack on La Defense business district was planned for Nov. 18 or 19.

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins says that additional attacks were planned in the days following the Paris attacks, by the suspected ringleader.

ABC News reports that the suspected ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was planning to attack La Defense, a French business district on Nov. 18 or 19, according to Molins. Abaaoud was found dead with another suspect in an apartment following a raid on the building.

Molins revealed further details about the attacks. According to the prosecutor, Abaaoud returned to the location of the attacks later in the evening. This was discovered after Abaaoud’s phone was traced back to the districts surrounding the Bataclan, where hostages were held during the attacks.

A cousin of Abaaoud received a call dialed from Belgium two days after the Paris attacks asking to find him a place to stay. A contract was put together with an apartment owner. The cousin met with Abaaoud two days later.

Suspected attacker Salah Abdeslam, who is still on the run, was likely the driver during the attacks on Stade de France during the soccer game. According to Molins, there was at least one more attacker than the eight originally thought to be involved. Officials in Belgium and France are searching for a man seen with Abdeslam two days before the attack. The man, Mohamed Abrini, was seen at a gas station with Abdelsam on Nov. 11. The vehicle seen with them, a Renault Clio, was used during the attacks.

In Belgium, five people have been arrested in connection with the Paris attacks. According to the Belgian Federal Prosecutors office, the fifth arrestee is charged “for participation in the activities of a terrorist group and terrorist murders.”

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