French probe if detonators were sold to Paris attack fugitive

AA French judicial official says that investigators are trying to verify whether a leading suspect in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks bought about 10 detonators at a specialized store outside Paris in September or October, reports Yahoo! News.

Investigators are in the process of checking whether the detonators were sold to Salah Abdeslam, who is on the run and the subject of a massive manhunt, the judicial official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and asked not to be identified.

The daily newspaper Le Parisien reported on Saturday that the manager of a company in the Val d'Oise region, northwest of Paris, had recognized Abdeslam after wanted posters were issued and contacted police to say he had sold electrical detonators to him.

The paper quoted unnamed sources close to the case.

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