Salah Abdeslam’s former partner was charged with premeditated assault and giving his former partner a USB key

Salah Abdeslam’s former partner was charged in two investigations. Two other people were also involved in one of them.

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Salah Abdeslam's photo was released during a police call for witnesses two days after the attack on November 13 2015. (NATIONAL POLICE/AFP)

Salah Abdeslam’s photo was released during a police call for witnesses two days after the November 13 2015 attack. (NATIONAL POLICE/AFP)

Three days before the anniversary of the November 13, 2015 attacks, Salah Abdeslam’s former associate, Maëva B., was indicted in two terrorist investigations, franceinfo learned Monday, November 10 from judicial sources. He was charged along with two other people, in accordance with the request of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor, Head of “criminal terrorist association“All three were placed in pretrial detention.

The second judicial information concerns the illegal transfer of a USB key to a former colleague, who is currently in prison. In this case, he was indicted on charges of “illegal handing over of objects to detainees” and placed under judicial supervision.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) announced on Monday in a press release that it had opened two separate judicial investigations, on the one hand into the USB key allegedly illegally connected to the computer of Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to irreducible life imprisonment and imprisoned in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) prison, and on the other hand into the attack planned by his former colleagues.

Pnat indicates has found “several discussions or research related to the development of a separate violent action project, which is not related to Salah Abdeslam“, on “digital media confiscated during a search carried out at Maëva B’s house.“, as part of an investigation opened in January 2025 into a prohibited USB key allegedly given to the only surviving member of the hitman commando squad on November 13, 2015.

Pnat determined that this woman, who has been in police custody since Tuesday, will show “certain radicalization and attraction to jihad“.He”separated“Abdeslam and”no longer in a relationship since April 2025” with him. In police custody, he “admitted to having obtained a USB key, loaded it with jihadist propaganda and gave it to Salah Abdeslam while in the visiting room”underscored the prosecution.