AN explosive belt was found in a bin south of Paris contained bolts and the same explosives used in the deadly attacks.
A French official said the vest — without a detonator — was found by a street cleaner in a pile of rubble in Chatillon-Montrouge, just south of the capital.
The official said laboratory analysis showed that the explosive material was TATP — used in seven other explosive vest in the attacks that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds of others. The official wasn’t authorised to speak publicly and couldn’t be identified by name.
In addition, the vest was found in the same zone where the mobile phone of a man sought by police was geolocalised. Police have been conducting a manhunt to find Salah Abdeslam, but it was not known if the explosive vest was abandoned by him. He was stopped by police in northern France after the attack but allowed to continue his journey to Belgium.
The lawyer of one of the men who has been charged on suspicion of helping Abdeslam escape to Brussels after the carnage, said the key suspect “may have been ready to detonate.”
Of about a dozen people suspected of playing a role in the attacks, seven blew themselves up: two at the Bataclan concert venue, three at the Stade de France stadium, one at a cafe on Boulevard Voltaire and one during a post-attacks police raid at an apartment in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. The suicide belt worn by a third attacker at the Bataclan exploded after he was killed by French security forces.
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