(AFP) Jihadists planned a follow-up attack in France during the UEFA Euro 2016 championships, months after killing 130 people in November 2015 attacks in Paris, a defendant in a Brussels trial said Thursday.
But that fell apart when a member of the cell, Salah Abdeslam, was arrested in Brussels just three months before the football tournament was to begin, said Mohamed Abrini.
Abrini, 38, spoke during cross-examination in the Belgian trial of nine alleged jihadists accused of taking part in March 2016 bombings in Brussels, at the city’s airport and in a metro station, that killed 32 people and wounded many more.
Abdeslam, a 33-year-old Frenchman also in court, is the main suspect in the trial.
