employed as a shopkeeper.

Abaaoud grew up in Molenbeek, an area in Brussels where "the radical Salafi ideology has flourished among some young Muslims." He attended the select in Uccle from 1999 to 2000. An article from 2015 said childhood friends claimed Abaaoud had smoked "a lot of cannabis" during his teenage years.

Both Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam were arrested during December

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