Overview
- Prosecutors opened two separate investigations, one into an illicit USB connected to Abdeslam’s prison computer and another into a suspected violent-action plan attributed to his ex-partner, Maëva B.
- Maëva B. was placed under formal investigation for providing a prohibited object to a detainee and separately for terrorist criminal association, with pretrial detention ordered in the latter case.
- Two alleged associates—a 20-year-old described as her religious husband in Isère and a 17-year-old in Hérault—were also charged with terrorist criminal association and remanded.
- Investigators found traces of four USB connections on Abdeslam’s prison computer from December 2024 to January 2025, with forensic analysis indicating files tied to ISIS and Al-Qaida propaganda, though the device itself was not recovered.
- Abdeslam was briefly held twice in the USB inquiry and released the same day each time, and the DGSI director and the anti-terror prosecutor’s office say he is not involved in the suspected plot.