‘Man in the Hat’ Belgian terror suspect reveals he took photographs of a football stadium in Manchester before Paris terror attacks and boasts of how easily ISIS moves through Europe

Tuesday, July 5, 2016
By Paul Martin

Mohamed Abrini told police he travelled to the UK after living in Raqqa
Ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud asked him to get £3,000 from Birmingham
Abrini visited unnamed Manchester stadium before returning to Belgium
Also claimed Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam powerful player in terror cell

By FLORA DRURY
DailyMail.com
5 July 2016

The ‘Man in the Hat’ Belgian terror suspect has revealed he took photographs of a Manchester football stadium before the Paris terror attacks as he boasted of how easily ISIS moved through Europe.

Mohamed Abrini – who has admitted to being the so-called Man in the Hat pictured at Brussels airport before two suicide bombers blew themselves up – told investigators he travelled to the UK and took photos of the unnamed stadium after returning unchallenged from Raqqa.

But the alleged terrorist, who has also been implicated in November’s attacks on Paris, claimed the pictures had nothing to do with the later attack on the Stade de France.

Abrini told investigator he took the photographs after being sent to England to pick up £3,000 for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who he had met in Raqqa during summer 2015, according to Belgian broadcaster VTM.

Abaaoud – killed in a police raid in St Denis after the Paris attacks – had risen to the position of ’emir’ within ISIS and had more than 1,000 extremists under his command at the time, Abrini claimed.

The Paris mastermind apparently asked Abrini to stay and fight, but he declined, travelling out of Syria through Turkey and to London, from where he went to pick up the money for Abaaoud’s little brother, Yasin.

He visited Manchester before travelling home to Belgium.

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