Paris attack gang probed over French airport terror link to MS804 tragedy at Charles de Gaulle
THE terrorists behind last year’s Paris attacks stopped at the airport now being scoured for jihadis after the EgyptAir crash, it emerged last night.
Four members of the IS team were at the Paris airport on November 13 last year, two hours before the attacks.
And it is feared they were meeting contacts linked to the EgyptAir crash.
A police source in Paris said last night: “It is feared the jihadis were coordinating with comrades at the airport.
“Anti-terrorist judges are today interrogating Abdeslam about his links with staff at Charles de Gaulle.”
Detectives say they are certain the trip to the airport was a planned operational stop.
The source said thousands of staff members were being interrogated yesterday after Thursday’s EgyptAir horror.
Security officials at the airport have long complained about the number of extremist Muslims working there.
Meanwhile recovery teams were last night retrieving bodies and wreckage from the EgyptAir crash site.
Debris was spotted floating in an oil slick 180 miles north of the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria yesterday.
Officials later confirmed the debris was from the crashed Airbus A320 and that no one could have survived the impact.
Egyptian military vessels were last night leading a search for the jet’s black box.
An Islamist terror attack remained the most likely explanation last night but no group had claimed responsibility.
The jet was seen to make sudden swerves before it disappeared from radar screens.
Mike Vivian, former head of operations at the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority said: “It looks highly unlikely this was consistent with some sort of explosive device.”
Theories including a life-or-death struggle in the cockpit remain at the top of a list of possible explanations.
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