
Share
18th April 2016
09:00am BST

via Getty (not the images in question)[/caption]
“We know that the Birmingham gang is involved in collecting illicit crime-generated cash in a sophisticated Europe wide money laundering scam directed by Islamists. The fact that both Abaaoud and Abrini travelled to Birmingham during heightened terror alerts across Europe shows how important the Birmingham link is.”
“It is not clear if Abrini personally took the photographs himself. We now know some of the images on his phone of UK sites were sent to him via an encrypted message app and included nondescript images of Birmingham city centre and what appears to be the Smallheath area of the city.”
Explore more on these topics: