After evading French and Belgian authorities for four months, he was arrested during a siege on his bolthole in the run down Molenbeek district of Brussels.
That 26-year-old Abdeslam was at large for 126 days after the November
13 attacks before finally being taken into custody belies how
agonisingly close the authorities had been to capturing him and suggests
he was blessed with an unusual degree of good fortune.
His lucky run began in the hours after the Paris outrages, in which
Abdeslam is believed to have been assigned to blow himself up as a
suicide bomber but instead dispensed with his bomb belt and returned to
Brussels
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