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Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam stays in Slovakia in 2015 summer: reports

Xinhua, April 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspected masterminds behind the Paris attacks last November, is thought to have visited Slovakia for three weeks in the summer of last year, local media reported on Wednesday.

According to news website aktuality.sk reports on Wednesday citing two independent sources from the Slovak Interior Ministry, Abdeslam stayed at a guest house in Nitra in western Slovakia.

His contact in Slovakia is said to have been an Iraqi relative from Mosul married to a Slovak woman, said the report.

Slovak police officers purportedly searched for Abdeslam in Nitra, its vicinity and in other major cities during a big night raid in November of last year.

Abdeslam, a French national of Moroccan origin, is reported to have provided vehicles and hotel rooms for the attackers in Paris.

It's thought that he originally intended to take part in the carnage himself but later changed his mind. He's currently being held by the Belgian authorities and is set to be extradited to France in order to stand trial there. Endit