© BFMTVAbdeslam with his friend Hamza Attou at a gas station on November 14.
At least five terrorists involved in the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks were receiving welfare benefits from the state, the
Wall Street Journal reports, citing local authorities.
Belgian financial investigators looking into the terrorist attacks found that
Salah Abdeslam, charged with taking part in the Paris assaults,
had collected โฌ19,000 ($21,000) in welfare payments, which were stopped just a few weeks before the attacks were carried out in the French capital in November,
WSJ reports.
However, Abdeslam should not have been receiving payments as he partly owned a bar, which he was managing at the time. Belgian officials say this made him ineligible for welfare.
In total, the authorities say that five terrorists who took part in the Paris and Brussels attacks were able to claim a total of over โฌ50,000 ($56,000).
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