The suspected coordinator of the November 13 Paris attacks planned to blow himself up in a suicide attack in the city's La Defense business district, the chief prosecutor said on Tuesday. Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud aimed to target the area in western Paris along with an accomplice just days after the November 13 carnage, which left 130 people dead in the French capital, Paris prosecutor François Molins told reporters. Molins added that Abaaoud had returned to the scene of the November 13 attacks, areas where gunmen and suicide bombers had earlier murdered people in cafés and bars. Telephone analysis showed that Abaaoud boarded a metro going back to the centre of Paris, travelling to each of the districts where attacks took place, including the Bataclan concert hall – where 90 people were killed by three assailants and the police operation to free hostages was ongoing. "They believe that Abaaoud returned to the scenes of the crime, notably to outside the Bataclan, between 10.30 pm and 12.30 am on the night of the attacks," FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris-Trent reported. Abaaoud was among three people who died during a police raid on an apartment in a northern Paris suburb in the days after the attacks. One of the three has still not been identified but is believed to have died when a suicide vest exploded. Another suspect, Salah Abdeslam, is still at large 11 days after the attacks. "The police have an awful lot of leads but they still have no idea where the surviving attacker is," Norris-Trent said.
