Paris attacks suspect 'wanted to blow himself up' at stadium

Bruges - The French justice ministry said that 90 days was the maximum amount of time it would take for Abdeslam's transfer.

Captured fugitive Salah Abdeslam initially planned to blow himself up outside the Stade de France during the Paris attacks but changed his mind, a prosecutor said Saturday, after Europe's most wanted man was charged with "terrorist murder" for his role in the November assaults.
Abdeslam, who was caught after being shot in the leg in a dramatic police raid on Friday, was also charged in Brussels with participating in a terrorist group. He was then taken to a maximum security prison in the northwestern tourist city of Bruges.
Abdeslam, 26, is cooperating with the authorities but he will fight his extradition to France, his lawyer Sven Mary said.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said that Abdeslam told interrogators he initially "wanted to blow himself up" at the Stade de France stadium before changing his mind.
Molins said the statement should be "taken cautiously".
A total of 130 people were killed in the November 13 gun and suicide bomb attacks in Paris, which targeted the Stade de France football stadium as well as bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The assaults were claimed by Daesh.
Days after the attacks an explosives-filled suicide vest was found in Paris in an area where mobile phone signals indicated Abdeslam had been.
French President Francois Hollande said shortly after Abdeslam's arrest on Friday that he wanted to see him transferred to France as quickly as possible to face prosecution for the deadly attacks.
"I can already tell you that we will oppose his extradition," Mary told reporters however.
Legal experts said this could delay but not prevent his handover to the French authorities under a European Arrest Warrant which the European Union introduced specifically to speed up extradition cases.
The French justice ministry said that 90 days was the maximum amount of time it would take for Abdeslam's transfer.
Abdeslam and his brother, who blew himself up during the Paris assault, had run a bar in the area until it was shut down by the authorities a few weeks before the attacks.
A lawyer for the Abdeslam family said relatives felt a "sense of relief" over his arrest because he was captured alive and the pressure to help find him had been lifted.