‘Mohamed Abrini hopes for an escape’
Mohamed Abrini, also called ‘the man in the hat’ in the investigation into the Brussels attacks, would have said that ‘ones’ would help him out of prison two months after his arrest. That has to write from tapped conversations in prison La Dernière Heure and La Libre Belgium Monday.
Photos found on a computer that the terrorists originally put in a public garbage can on March 22, show the existence of weapons that would have consequences for the Brussels terror cell in Zaventem and in Maalbeek. Abrini would have wanted his younger brothers to recover those weapons. According to an investigation by State Security, he would have discussed this with Bilal El Makhoukhi, who, like him, was locked up in the prison of Bruges.
El Makhoukhi indicated that he knew where the weapons were hidden, asked Abrini to tell him the hiding place so he could send someone to retrieve the weapons. “Because I know people who are willing to get me out of here,” it sounds.
Abrini decided at the last minute not to blow himself up at Zaventem airport with his two companions Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui. He fled and was arrested shortly after the attacks. He is one of ten suspects who will have to answer for the Belgian terror trial in the autumn. In Paris, at the end of June, he became a member of a terrorist organization and was sentenced to life imprisonment.