Mastermind of Paris attacks planned explosions at France's famous business district: prosecutor

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of bloody Paris attacks had planned with an accomplice two suicide bombings in La Defense business district, west of the French capital, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins unveiled on Tuesday.

"The elements suggest that Abaaoud and the man found at his side in the apartment had planned to blow themselves up on November 18 or November 19 at La Defense," Molins said.

Two suicide vests were found in a flat in Saint-Denis, northern Paris suburbs where Abaaoud was staying before being killed in a police assault on Nov.18, Molins added.

Telephone analysis showed Abaaoud, 28 years old, had returned to the scene of the Nov. 13 attacks areas where gunmen and suicide bombers had killed 130 people in restaurants and while the siege at the Bataclan concert theatre was still under way.

Speaking of the role of Jawad Bendaoud, the man who provided the apartment, Molins said "he couldn't possibly have been unaware ... that he was taking part in a terrorist organization."

Right before his arrest, Bendaoud told news channel BFMTV that a friend asked him to accommodate two of his buddies for a few days and he was not aware that they were terrorists.

The three occupants of the apartment in Saint-Denis were killed in a police raid last Wednesday, including Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin who was suspected to have orchestrated a series of explosions and shootings in Paris on Nov. 13, which killed 130 people and injured more than 300 others.

Another main suspect, Salah Abdeslam, is still at large. Endit