The suspected coordinator of the November 13 Paris attacks planned to blow himself up in a suicide attack in the city's La Défense business district, the chief prosecutor said on Tuesday, reports FRANCE 24.
Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud aimed to target the area in western Paris along with an accomplice just days after the November 13 carnage, which left 130 people dead in the French capital, Paris prosecutor François Molins told reporters.
Molins added that Abaaoud returned to the targetted cafes, bars and the Bataclan concert hall just a few hours after the coordinated November 13 attack.
Mobile geolocalistaion data showed that Abaaoud boarded a metro heading to the centre of Paris, travelling to each of the districts where the attacks took place at approximately 9.30pm on a busy Friday night in the French capital.
“They believe that Abaaoud returned to the scenes of the crime, notably to outside the Bataclan, between 10.30pm and 12.30am on the night of the attacks,” FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris-Trent reported.