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Paris Attacks Mastermind Planned to Carry Out Plot in Beginning of 2015

© AP Photo / Militant PhotoThis undated image made available in the Islamic State's English-language magazine Dabiq, shows Abdelhamid Abaaoud
This undated image made available in the Islamic State's English-language magazine Dabiq, shows Abdelhamid Abaaoud - Sputnik International
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud, an alleged mastermind behind the deadly attacks in the French capital, planned to organize a terror plot in Europe at the beginning of the year, a German newspaper reported.

BERLIN (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, French media reported that the Friday's Paris attacks were coordinated by Abaaoud, a 27-years-old Belgian citizen of Moroccan origin, who used to be the leader of a Islamic State (ISIL) militant group’s cell.

French fire brigade members aid an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris, France, November 13, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Abaaoud, in an interview with ISIL-affiliated magazine Dabiq published in February, said that he and two other terrorists had arrived in Belgium to conduct terror attacks in Europe, German Bild newspaper reported on Monday.

Their plans were ruined by the January counter-terrorist raid by Belgian and French police that stormed their hideout in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers, Abaaoud said, adding that he manage to escape the police and flee to the ISIL-controlled territory of the Middle East.

On Friday night, several extremists wearing explosive belts attacked public venues across Paris, killing some 130 and injuring hundreds of people at restaurants of the French capital, the Bataclan concert hall and in the vicinity of the Stade de France.

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