Paris ringleader planned suicide attack in business district

The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks and an accomplice planned to blow themselves up in a suicide attack on the city's La Defense business district, the chief prosecutor said Tuesday.

Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud aimed to target the area in western Paris in the week after the November 13 carnage, which left 130 people dead in the French capital, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters.

Abaaoud also returned to the scene of the attacks while the siege at the Bataclan concert venue was still under way, the Paris prosecutor said.

Telephone analysis showed that Abaaoud had returned to the area around the Bataclan -- where 90 people were killed by three assailants -- while the police operation to free hostages was ongoing on November 13.
Source: AFP