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 BRUSSELS — Salah Abdeslam, believed to be the only direct participant in the November attacks in Paris who is still alive, told investigators on Saturday after being captured a day earlier that he wanted to detonate his suicide vest at the Stade de France soccer stadium on the night of the attacks but “backed out,” said the lead terrorism prosecutor in France. 
 
 Three of the attackers detonated their vests there, but killed just one person and themselves on Nov. 13 during a match between France and Germany. 
 
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 The prosecutor, François Molins, warned against putting too much stock in anything Mr. Abdeslam said at such an early stage. “These first statements leave unanswered a whole series of questions that Salah Abdeslam will have to answer,” he said. 
 
 At a hearing before a judge in Belgium on Saturday, Mr. Abdeslam made it clear that he would fight extradition to France, said his lawyer, Sven Mary. 
 
 Mr. Mary spoke to journalists after he and Mr. Abdeslam met with a Belgian magistrate who was to decide whether to issue a formal arrest warrant against Mr. Abdeslam, who is accused of playing a key role in the Nov. 13 attacks on a concert, cafes and a stadium that killed 130 people. 
 
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 Later Saturday, the magistrate issued the warrant, the federal prosecutor’s office said. 
 
 Mr. Abdeslam was captured with another person suspected of being an accomplice, and both were taken to a Brussels hospital. They were discharged early Saturday, Yvan Mayeur, the Brussels mayor, said on Twitter. 
 
 Mr. Abdeslam, a French citizen, is subject to a European arrest warrant issued by France. His seizure in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek after he spent four months on the run brought relief to people who had seen his wanted poster all over two countries for months. ||||| Image copyright AP 
 
 Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has admitted he wanted to blow himself up but then changed his mind, a French prosecutor says. 
 
 Abdeslam has been charged with terrorism offences in Belgium a day after he was seized in a dramatic raid. 
 
 Abdeslam will fight extradition to France but has been co-operating with police, his lawyer says. 
 
 The Paris attacks in November left 130 people dead and dozens injured. 
 
 The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the bombings and shootings. 
 
 Abdeslam is charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says. 
 
 Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference: "Salah Abdeslam today during questioning by [Belgian] investigators affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France and that he had backed down'." 
 
 Abdeslam's assertions should be treated with caution, he added. 
 
 The 26-year-old French national, born in Belgium, is in custody following his arrest in Brussels on Friday after four months on the run. 
 
 Investigators hope Abdeslam, who was shot in the leg during his arrest, will reveal more information about the IS network behind the Paris attacks, its financing and plans. 
 
 They believe he helped with logistics, including renting rooms and driving suicide bombers to the Stade de France. 
 
 Abdeslam is believed to have fled shortly after the attacks, returning to the Molenbeek district of Brussels. 
 
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 Image copyright AFP Image caption Salah Abdeslam's Belgian lawyer Sven Mary says his client will oppose extradition 
 
 Interpol has meanwhile urged "extra vigilance" at borders following Friday's Brussels raid, saying more accomplices may try to flee Europe. 
 
 Manhunt 
 
 The subject of a massive manhunt, Salah Abdeslam was arrested about 500m (1,600ft) from his home in Molenbeek. His brother, Brahim, was one of the Paris attackers, who blew himself up. 
 
 Another man arrested at the same time as Salah Abdeslam on Friday, Monir Ahmed Alaaj, has also been charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, the Belgian prosecutors say. 
 
 Media caption Explosion heard during live news report on Friday 
 
 Friday's raid also saw three members of a family detained. 
 
 They include Abid Aberkan, described as a friend of Abdeslam, who has been charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation and harbouring criminals. 
 
 Another family member, identified as Djemila M, has been charged with harbouring criminals, but is not in custody, the prosecutor's office says. 
 
 Abid Aberkan's mother, Sihane, has been freed and faces no charges. 
 
 Fingerprints 
 
 The raid came after Abdeslam's fingerprints were found in a flat in another Brussels district, Forest, raided on Tuesday. 
 
 Dramatic footage showed Abdeslam being bundled into a police car on Friday after a volley of gunfire. Alaaj was also injured during the arrests, but both suspects were discharged from hospital on Saturday. 
 
 French President Francois Hollande said Abdeslam's arrest was "an important moment". 
 
 "The battle against terrorism does not end tonight, even though this is a victory," Mr Hollande told a news conference on Friday with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. 
 
 "We must catch all those who allowed, organised or facilitated these attacks and we realise that they are a lot more numerous than we thought earlier and had identified," he said. 
 
 Prosecutors said Alaaj had travelled with Abdeslam to Germany last October, where his fingerprints were taken during an identity check. 
 
 A false Syrian passport in Alaaj's name and Belgian identity papers under an alias were found in a flat in Forest raided on Tuesday. 
 
 More details have meanwhile emerged about an Algerian national, Mohamed Belkaid, shot dead in Tuesday's raid. 
 
 Associated Press says it has been passed documents by the Syrian opposition news site, Zaman al-Wasl, suggesting he joined IS in 2014 and asked to be a suicide bomber. 
 
 Belgian investigators say he is likely to have been an associate of Abdeslam. 
 
 Along with the Stade de France, the Paris bombings and shootings targeted the Bataclan concert hall and bars and restaurants. 
 
 Officials have identified most of the people they believe to have carried out the assaults and on Friday Mr Hollande predicted that more arrests could follow. 
 
 Most of the suspects either died during the attacks or were killed in subsequent police raids. ||||| Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has told investigators he was planning new operations from Brussels, Belgium's foreign minister has said. 
 
 Didier Reynders said that Abdeslam said "he was ready to restart something from Brussels, and it's maybe the reality". 
 
 The minister said the authorities are taking the claim seriously because "we found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations, and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brussels". 
 
 He added: "We have found more than 30 people involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris, but we are sure that there are others." 
 
 Abdeslam was arrested on Friday in a police raid in the Belgian capital, four months after the Paris attacks which left 130 people dead. 
 
 He has been charged with "terrorist murder" and now faces extradition to France. 
 
 Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the 26-year-old told investigators he planned to carry out a suicide attack outside the Stade de France, but did not go ahead with his plan. 
 
 Abdeslam's lawyer Sven Mary has told Belgian public broadcaster RTBF that he will file a complaint against Mr Molins, accusing him of revealing details of the first interrogation of the suspect to journalists on Saturday. 
 
 Meanwhile, it has emerged Abdeslam's brother Brahim, who blew himself up at a restaurant as part of the attacks, was buried just a day before his brother was captured. 
 
 Salah Abdeslam is believed to be the last surviving member of the 10-man jihadist team that carried out the Paris attacks, which Islamic State claimed responsibility for. 
 
 Two more suspects are wanted in connection with the bloodshed - Mohamed Abrini, who became friends with Abdeslam when they were teenagers, and another fugitive known only by a name used on false papers, Soufiane Kayal. 
 
 Mr Molins said Abdeslam played a "central role" in the attacks, which targeted bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France. 
 
 Investigators believed he rented rooms in the city to be used by the attackers and a car which he used to drive them to the stadium before heading to Paris' 18th arrondissement. 
 
 In the aftermath of the attacks an explosive-filled suicide vest was found in an area where mobile phone signals indicated Abdeslam had been.
– " It was an absolutely cold track," a French intel veteran of the hunt for Salah Abdeslam as of Monday night. Four months into the hunt for the key terrorist in the Paris attacks, officials didn't know if he was still in Europe or if he'd slipped through to Syria. But, as Time reports, "on Tuesday, that changed entirely": A SWAT team investigating another matter caught gunfire from an apartment in a Brussels suburb; grainy cell phone video indicated Abdeslam might've been among those who escaped, and a fingerprint inside confirmed his presence—hidden right in plain sight. Another coincidence: Abdeslam's slain brother, Ibrahim, a suicide bomber at the Paris cafe, was finally being buried Thursday. Cops tapped the phones of 20 of the brothers' friends who collected Ibrahim Abdeslam's body, which apparently gave them intel to set up Friday's successful raid in Mollenbeek. " This is a really, really good thing, that he was captured alive," says Mollenbeek's deputy mayor. Meanwhile, Abdeslam is talking, reports the BBC. "Salah Abdeslam today during questioning by [Belgian] investigators affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France and that he had backed down,' " Paris' prosecutor said Saturday. Abdeslam's lawyer says he's planning to file a legal complaint against the prosecutor for that particular disclosure, reports Sky News. Abdeslam is also fighting extradition to France, adds the New York Times. But investigators believe he wasn't idle while on the run: Abdeslam said "he was ready to restart something from Brussels, and it's maybe the reality," says Belgium's foreign minister. "We found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations, and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brussels."