Friday, November 20, 2015
Brother of Paris mastermind was arrested in Morocco last month after arriving in his father's hometown and has been held in custody ever since
Yassine Abaaoud held after plane landed in Agadir, says security source
It is not known why he travelled to Morocco or if he has ties with ISIS cell
But Moroccan security officials had provided information that helped their French counterparts launch raid on his brother Abdelhamid Abaaoud
ISIS mastermind was killed in siege after planning attacks that killed 130
A brother of Paris terror mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was arrested in Morocco last month and has been held in custody ever since, it emerged today.
Yassine Abaaoud was detained after his plane landed in his father's hometown of Agadir, a Moroccan security source said.
His older brother, the Belgian militant of Moroccan origin, 28, orchestrated last week's coordinated bombings and shootings that have now killed 130 people after the French prime minister raised the death toll today.
He was among those killed in a police raid in a Paris suburb.
Yassine was arrested last month after his plane landed in Agadir and has been held in custody since, a Moroccan security source, who declined to be named, told Reuters.
'He has been held for about one month now,' the source said.
It was unclear why Abdelhamid's younger brother had travelled to Morocco or whether he has ties with the militant cell in Europe. The source declined to give further details on the arrest.
But Moroccan security officials had provided information that helped their French counterparts launch a raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis on Wednesday, sources have said, where Abdelhamid was killed.
Morocco's king is in France and was expected to meet President Francois Hollande on Friday.
A French police source said four representatives of the Moroccan security services were in Paris on Tuesday to meet the heads of judicial police.
Moroccan authorities have arrested scores of suspected Islamic State militants in recent months.
On Monday, police had detained four people linked to the group, the country's interior ministry said.
That cell was planning attacks using explosives, while its leader had close ties to Moroccans fighting with ISIS in order to obtain logistic support. It did not give details of those contacts.
Around 1,500 Moroccan nationals are fighting with armed groups in Syria and Iraq, 220 have returned home and been jailed and 286 have been killed, authorities said earlier this year.
Nearly 158 women and 135 children have also gone there.
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