BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – International law enforcement outfit Interpol has intercepted reports of Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s younger brother planning to exact revenge for his death, French media reported.
"I come here at 10 o’clock," Younes Abaaoud, 15, wrote to his sister in a February 18 telephone exchange intercepted by Interpol and seen by France’s Paris Match weekly on Sunday.
The interception claims Abaaoud traveled from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and warns that he "changed his appearance and travels with false identity papers." Interpol suggested he could board a plane "to any destination in Turkey, Morocco or Europe."
"If he returned to Europe and he is running around with a false identity, it would be difficult for us to find him," an unidentified European investigator said as quoted by the weekly.
His older brother was shot and killed in a raid by French police five days after the November 13 series of attacks that killed 130 people in Paris. Abaaoud the elder was accused of kidnapping and taking the 15-year-old to a training camp in Syria.
The third Abaaoud brother Yassine is said to be imprisoned in Morocco.
News of Younes Abaaoud’s thoughts of exacting revenge for his older brother emerged as early as the week of Abdelhamid’s killing.
