Smoking, alcohol and women: The other face of “jihadi Salah”

CNN has published some exclusive pictures showing Salah Abdeslam, the attacker of Paris, dancing in a nightclub in Brussels a few months after the attacks in the French capital.

The images show the terrorist wearing an orange T-shirt who has fun in a local with his brother Brahim, smoking a cigarette and flirting with a blonde woman. They dance on the notes of their favorite rapper, Lacrim. It was the 8th February 2015. Months later, exactly on 13th November of that year, Brahim will explode himself in the attacks of the French capital, which caused 130 deaths. Salah instead will be captured at the end of March this year 2016 in Brussels.

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The video was shot by two “friends” of Salah, who handed it over to CNN and told about that night at the disco: “We meet at a park in downtown, a short distance from Maelbeek Metro Station,” say the two friends who remember Brahim as the most serious, while Salah as the most playful. “They were beautiful people – said one of the two – and were as if they had lived their life at its max.” “I saw Salah joking, smoking, drinking and gambling with cards – added another friend – he liked women. I heard he had a girlfriend.”

To watch the CNN short video (mobile low quality): Huffington Post