Salah Abdeslam
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15 September 1989 Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | November 2015 Paris attacks |
Salah Abdeslam (French pronunciation: [sala abdɛslam]; born 15 September 1989) is a Belgium-born French national of Moroccan descent. He was accused of involvement in the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 (in which 130 people were killed and 368 others were injured), through providing logistical support for the assailants, driving them to their target locations, and having some involvement in the manufacture of the explosives used. Having evaded authorities, he became the target of one of the largest manhunts in modern European history.Europol had Abdeslam as first in a list of wanted criminals out of 57 individuals listed publicly by the organisation in January 2016.
Abdeslam is known to have had contacts or social links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), since the ISIL organization subsequently made a claim of responsibility for the attack. Of the men known to be involved in the attacks, he and Mohammad Abrini are the only two still alive, due to the others involved either having killed themselves or having been killed by French police officers.
After about four months on the run, Abdeslam was apprehended during a police raid conducted in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, on 18 March 2016. On 21 April, he was charged in Brussels with attempted murder in relation to a shootout that occurred during another police raid three days before his arrest, and on 27 April, he was extradited to France and faced further charges, some terrorism related.
Salah Abdeslam was born on 15 September 1989 in Brussels, Belgium. His parents are immigrants who were living in Bouyafar, a small village in northern Morocco, prior to emigration. Though the Abdeslams lived in Belgium from the 1960s, they were all French nationals, having acquired French nationality from the time the parents lived in Algeria.
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