(AFP) Belgium on Thursday transferred suspect Mohamed Abrini to France to stand trial in September among 14 people accused of involvement in the 2015 Paris attacks, sources close to the case said.
Abrini — known as the “man in the hat” from video footage — renounced to blow himself [up] during a later 2016 attack in Brussels and is accused of accompanying the jihadists in Paris and helping provide financing and weapons.
The Belgian-Moroccan citizen, 36, was a childhood friend of the only surviving attacker Salah Abdeslam from an atrocity that saw Islamist suicide bombers and gunmen kill 130 people at the Stade de France stadium, bars and restaurants in central Paris and the Bataclan concert hall in November 2015.
