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Published on 15 December 2015

Mastermind of Paris terror attacks planned to attack Jewish targets

Speaking of planned future attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud told his cousin that "they would do worse damage in districts close to the Jews".

Published on European Jewish Press Novembre 29, 2015
 
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind behind the attacks against various sites in Paris that left 130 people dead in Paris on November 13, also planned to attack schools, Jewish targets and the transportation system, according to sources close to the investigation quoted by Reuters.
 
A witness statement, quoted in the French Valeurs Actuelles weekly magazine this week, described how Abaaoud approached his cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen two days after the killing spree, asking her to hide him while he prepared further attacks.
 
Speaking of planned future attacks, Abaaoud told his cousin that "they would do worse damage in districts close to the Jews".Abaaoud and Boulahcen were killed in a shootout with police in Saint-Denis, in northern Paris, before the attacks could be carried out... Read more.