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| Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam had German nuclear files | Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam had German nuclear files |
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| Salah Abdeslam, a prime suspect in the Paris attacks, possessed documents about a nuclear research centre in Germany, according to German newspaper reports. | Salah Abdeslam, a prime suspect in the Paris attacks, possessed documents about a nuclear research centre in Germany, according to German newspaper reports. |
| The Juelich centre near the Belgium-Germany border is used for the storage of atomic waste. It said in a statement that there was no indication of any danger and that Juelich was in contact with security authorities and nuclear supervisors. | |
| On Thursday, the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media group cited sources within the parliamentary control committee, whose meetings are confidential, as saying that Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV), told the nine-person committee at the end of March that Abdeslam had the documents. | On Thursday, the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media group cited sources within the parliamentary control committee, whose meetings are confidential, as saying that Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV), told the nine-person committee at the end of March that Abdeslam had the documents. |
| It said he had disclosed to the committee, which monitors the work of German security agencies, that printouts of articles from the internet and photos of the Juelich chairman, Wolfgang Marquardt, had been found in Abdeslam’s apartment in the Molenbeek area of Brussels. | It said he had disclosed to the committee, which monitors the work of German security agencies, that printouts of articles from the internet and photos of the Juelich chairman, Wolfgang Marquardt, had been found in Abdeslam’s apartment in the Molenbeek area of Brussels. |
| RND said it was unclear whether Maaßen had passed this information on to the chancellery or the interior ministry. | RND said it was unclear whether Maaßen had passed this information on to the chancellery or the interior ministry. |
| Several members of the Bundestag and a terrorism expert at the BfV said they knew of this information and that Maaßen had confidentially informed them, it said. | Several members of the Bundestag and a terrorism expert at the BfV said they knew of this information and that Maaßen had confidentially informed them, it said. |
| Neither BfV nor the foreign intelligence service was immediately available for comment when contacted by Reuters. | |
| Abdeslam, born and raised in Belgium to Moroccan-born parents, was arrested on 18 March in Brussels. Four days later, suicide bombers killed 32 people in Brussels airport and on a rush-hour metro train. | Abdeslam, born and raised in Belgium to Moroccan-born parents, was arrested on 18 March in Brussels. Four days later, suicide bombers killed 32 people in Brussels airport and on a rush-hour metro train. |
| Concerns that Islamic extremists are turning their attention to potential weak spots in the nuclear industry have risen since the attacks. |