The
man accused of being the logistics chief behind the Paris terror
attacks was booed by radical Muslim inmates after arriving in jail -
because he failed to carry out his suicide bombing.
Salah Abdeslam spent his first night in Fleury-Mérogis prison on Wednesday after being extradited from Belgium.
He was arrested over last November's attacks in the French capital which claimed 130 lives.
Upon
arriving behind bars, the 26-year-old was whistled and jeered by
extremist lags enraged by his alleged failure to detonate his suicide
vest during the Paris onslaught.
Salah
Abdeslam (left) spent his first night in Fleury-Mérogis prison on
Wednesday after being extradited from Belgium. Upon arriving behind
bars, the 26-year-old was whistled and jeered by extremist lags enraged
by his alleged failure to detonate his suicide vest during the Paris
onslaught
He will remain in custody in the southern Paris jail (pictured) - Europe's largest - until his next court hearing on May 20
Investigators
say Abdeslam told them he had arranged logistics for the November 13
bombing and shooting attacks and had planned to blow himself up at a
sports stadium there but backed out at the last minute.
He
is suspected of having rented two cars used to transport the attackers
to, and around, the French capital. He will remain in custody in the
southern Paris jail - Europe's largest - until his next court hearing on
May 20.
Despite
being held in solitary confinement, extra security measures have been
put in place to prevent him making contact with other prisoners.
French
officials yesterday charged Abdeslam with murder, association with a
terrorist group, possession of weapons and explosives as well as
sequestration over the hostage-taking at the Bataclan concert hall where
90 were killed.
Speaking yesterday, his lawyer described him as a 'moron from Molenbeek' with 'the intelligence of an ashtray'.
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