Sole surviving perpetrator of 2015 Paris attacks faces new probe

French court artist Elisabeth de Pourquery's sketches showing Salah Abdeslam, one of the accused, who is widely-believed to be the only surviving member of the group suspected of carrying out the Paris' November 2015 attacks, are displayed on a desk during an interview with Reuters at her home near Paris, France, September 27, 2021. Picture taken September 27, 2021. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PARIS (Reuters) -French anti-terrorist prosecutors have launched a new investigation into Salah Abdeslam, the only convicted perpetrator of the 2015 Paris attacks, on suspicion he sneaked a flash drive holding jihadist content into his prison cell.

The French prison authority found in January that Abdeslam, who is allowed to have a computer in his cell, had connected it to a USB drive four times in December 2024 and January 2025, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.