Nuke research center papers found in Paris attacker’s home
Salah Abdeslam had internet printouts about institute on German-Belgian border, including photos of center’s chairman
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
Documents about a German nuclear research center, where nuclear waste is also stored, have been found in the apartment of detained Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, German media reported Thursday.
Among the internet printouts were pictures of the nuclear institute’s chairman, Reuters said.
Abdeslam, 26, the central suspect in the planning and carrying out of the shooting and suicide bombing attacks that left 130 people dead and 350 wounded in Paris in November, was captured along with four other suspects in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek in March.
The Julich research center, located on the German-Belgian border, stated Thursday on its website that following the media coverage, it had “no indications of any threat. We are maintaining close contact with the relevant safety and nuclear regulatory authorities in this matter.”
The document find was reported to a closed parliamentary committee that monitors German intelligence agencies by domestic intelligence head Hans-Georg Maassen, according to sources cited by German news network Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), Reuters reported.
Last month it was reported that a police raid had uncovered hours of video footage of the Flanders home of the director of a Belgian nuclear site filmed by Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, two of the suicide bombers in the Brussels attacks.
