A man who says he lives in the apartment raided by French SWAT teams says he let some people stay there as a favor and “didn’t know they’re terrorists.”
Jawad Bendaoud, who was detained during Wednesday’s raid on suspects linked to last week’s Paris attacks, spoke to BFMTV as he was being led away by police.
Speaking outside the building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, he says “I learned it was at my place, and the individuals barricaded themselves in my place …I didn’t know they’re terrorists.”
He said someone had “asked me to put some people up for two, three days, and I provided this service.”
He says “I don’t know where they come from … If I would have known, I wouldn’t have let them stay.”
Bendaoud’s lawyer confirmed the man in the footage was his client, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing his best friend in a 2006 fight.
— AP
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