Salah Abdeslam (Arabic: صلاح عبد السلام, lit. 'Ṣalāḥ ʿAbd as-Salām'; French pronunciation:[salaabdɛslam]; born 15 September 1989) is a Belgian-born Islamic terrorist who was sentenced to life in prison in France in 2022 as the only surviving member of the 10-man unit that carried out the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, in which 130 people were killed and more than 490 injured.
Abdeslam was born and raised in the Molenbeek district of Brussels. His family was of Moroccan origin but had acquired French nationality. Abdeslam worked for two years at the Brussels public transport company STIB-MIVB and then drifted into petty crime and unemployment. From 2013 he helped his brother Brahim Abdeslam, who was a suicide bomber in the Paris attacks, run a Molenbeek café-bar which was a centre for drug dealing and watching Islamic State videos.
In the months preceding the Paris attacks, Abdeslam drove to Hungary and Germany to collect members of the Brussels Islamic State terror cell who were returning from Syria via the migrant route. He also purchased material for making explosives. In the days before the attacks he went to Paris to arrange accommodation for the attackers. On the evening of 13 November 2015, Abdeslam drove the three Stade de France bombers to the football stadium, before failing to detonate his own suicide vest and abandoning his car. He then called upon friends to collect him and take him back to Brussels, where he went into hiding. On 15 March 2016, police raided a property in the Forest district of Brussels, where Abdeslam was hiding with two other members of the terrorist cell. One of them was killed during the shootout, while Abdeslam and the third man escaped from a back window. Abdeslam was arrested on 18 March 2016 in Molenbeek and extradited to France.
In Brussels in 2018, Abdeslam was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in the Forest shootout. In September 2021 he went on trial in Paris. During the trial, he spoke for the first time about his role in the attacks, having maintained his right to silence since 2016. He said he had not killed anyone and claimed he had decided not to detonate his explosives at the last minute. After a ten-month trial he was found guilty of all charges including terrorism and murder and sentenced to a full-life term of imprisonment. In December 2022, he went on trial in Brussels charged with involvement in the planning of the 2016 Brussels bombings, which took place four days after his arrest. The jury returned a verdict of guilty in July 2023.
SalahAbdeslam (Arabic: صلاح عبد السلام, lit. 'Ṣalāḥ ʿAbd as-Salām'; French pronunciation: [sala abdɛslam]; born 15 September 1989) is a Belgian-born...
were killed five days later during the Saint-Denis police raid, while SalahAbdeslam returned to Brussels. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near...
nous renonçons à défendre SalahAbdeslam". L'OBS. Retrieved May 23, 2019. "VIDEO. Frank Berton, avocat français de SalahAbdeslam : "La justice, elle se...
extensive network of accomplices, including two brothers, Brahim Abdeslam and SalahAbdeslam, to execute terrorist attacks; Abaaoud was killed in the Saint-Denis...
raids, one suspect was killed and five others were arrested, including SalahAbdeslam, the only surviving member of the 10-man unit that carried out the November...
Belgian lawyer, best known for representing notorious criminals such as SalahAbdeslam and for defending Eva Kaili, Greek Member of the European Parliament...
One of the perpetrators of the attack, Belgian-born French national SalahAbdeslam, was thought to be hiding in the city. As a result of warnings of a...
écrivait à SalahAbdeslam". Valeurs actuelles. 22 February 2020. ""C'est un exercice illégal" : quand il sollicite le terroriste Abdeslam, Juan Branco...
military. On 18 March 2016, four days before the Brussels bombings, SalahAbdeslam and another suspect in the Paris attacks were captured after two anti-terrorist...
district of Molenbeek, where he was a childhood friend of future terrorist SalahAbdeslam. He was convicted of theft aged seventeen and went on to acquire a long...
police raid in Saint Denis on 18 November 2015. One terrorist survived. SalahAbdeslam had driven three suicide bombers to the Stade de France before abandoning...
smoked "a lot of cannabis" during his teenage years. Both Abaaoud and SalahAbdeslam were arrested during December 2010 for attempting to break into a parking...
2015, Krayem allegedly met SalahAbdeslam in Ulm, Germany to discuss possible cooperation in terrorist attacks. Abdeslam was one of the Belgian suspected...
Brussels, during which Belkaid was firing on police to allow SalahAbdeslam to escape. SalahAbdeslam was arrested a few days later and the surviving members...
on 15 and 18 March 2016 which captured SalahAbdeslam. Laachraoui is believed to be an accomplice of Abdeslam, with whom he travelled across Europe under...
vulnerable to radicalization.[citation needed] Famous terrorists such as SalahAbdeslam are at the top of the "social pecking order" in prisons in western Europe...
transferred from Saint-Gilles Prison to Haren Prison on 13 December 2022. SalahAbdeslam, a terrorist who participated in the Bataclan theatre attack in Paris...
Abdelhamid Abaaoud had "deep friendships" with the people such as SalahAbdeslam in his group. Canadian citizen Momin Khawaja became an Islamic radical...
Brussels, during which Belkaid was firing on police to allow SalahAbdeslam to escape. SalahAbdeslam was arrested a few days later and the surviving members...
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 27 April 2020. Henry Samuel (31 March 2016). "Has SalahAbdeslam turned Isil supergarss?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 April 2016...
in the Turkish capital of Ankara. 18 March – Paris attacks suspect SalahAbdeslam is shot and arrested in a police raid in the Molenbeek area of Brussels...
Godfried Danneels, archbishop and cardinal (born 1933) Pieter Aspe, writer SalahAbdeslam Terrorist accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris Attacks...
Kapp, Joshua; Sockell, Alexandra; Rodríguez-Santos, Francisco J.; Mikdad, Abdeslam; Trujillo-Mederos, Aioze; Bustamante, Carlos D. (26 June 2018). "Ancient...
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