Missed chances to stop Paris terror attacks
A series of missed opportunities to stop the men suspected of carrying out the deadly Paris terror attacks raises questions about the ability of European security forces to keep the continent safe from future threats
St-Denis
raid
Stade de
France
Boulevard
Voltaire
4km
2.5 miles
Bataclan
theatre
Brahim Abdeslam
(top left)
PARIS
Detained by Turkish authorities in
January after suspected attempt
to join Islamic State in Syria.
Deported to Belgium and freed
Abdelhamid
after questioning.
Blew himself
Abaaoud
(left)
up on Boulevard Voltaire
Belgian of Moroccan
origin, linked to
previous terror plots.
Escaped to Syria in
Salah Abdeslam
(top right)
Until six weeks before attack, ran bar
with brother Brahim in Molenbeek –
Brussels suburb linked with previous
January but police were unaware he
had returned until after Paris attacks.
Suspected ringleader, shot dead
in St-Denis raid on Nov 18
terror plots.
Terror suspect still at
large after police let him go in wake
of Paris attacks
French
Bilal Hadfi:
Identified
Ismael Omar Mostefai:
national living in Belgium.
Under surveillance, but
managed to evade
police and return to
Europe after visiting
as possible security threat by France
in 2010. Turkey says it issued two
unheeded warnings in past year to
French officials about threat posed
by Mostefai.
Blew himself up inside
Syria in February.
Blew
Bataclan theatre
himself up outside Stade de France
Sami Amimour
Name on
Ahmad Almohammad:
Investigated for
possible terror-related
activity in 2012.
Missed four weekly
check-ins with French
police in 2013, and was
Syrian passport near body of Stade
de France suicide bomber, whose
fingerprints match those of person
who entered Greece with migrants in
October.
Discovery raises fears
that other militants may have used
migrant crisis to pose as refugees
already in Syria before arrest warrant
issued.
Bataclan suicide bomber
Source: Reuters
Pictures: Associated Press
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