'Man in the Hat' Belgian terror suspect tells police how he 'hung out' in a park and walked past their officers while on the run after ISIS terror attacks he helped unleash killed 32 people
Mohamed Abrini told police he travelled to the UK after living in Raqqa
After he was caught on CCTV at Zaventum Airport he 'went to a cafe'
Extraordinary details were revealed in transcripts of his interrogation
Ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud asked him to get £3,000 from Birmingham
Abrini visited unnamed Manchester stadium before returning to Belgium
Also claimed Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam powerful player in terror cell
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The 'Man in the Hat' Belgian terror suspect said he walked past police and soldiers and 'hung out in a park' for days in Brussels despite being the target of an international manhunt in the days after the triple bombing in March.
Mohamed Abrini was famously seen on CCTV in the moments before his two accomplices detonated suicide vests that left 15 people dead at Brussel's Zaventum Airport.
In astonishing statements given to investigators and revealed by Belgian broadcaster VTM, the terrorist said after he left the airport he met a woman at a cafe, and only wore a cap to hide his identity from law enforcement.
Mohamed Abrini (left, and allegedly right at Zaventum airport before the first bomb went off) told investigators he travelled to the UK and took photos of a football stadium in Manchester before the Paris attacks
'After the attacks in Brussels, I met a woman in a cafe, where I stayed for a while,' Abrini claimed, according to transcripts of his interrogations obtained by VTM.
'During the day I just hung out in a park in Vorst (a suburb of Brussels). You know, an international arrest warrant, being searched for and so on -- that doesn't mean anything. Every day I passed soldiers, police. Not with a covered face, but with a cap.'
Abrini also revealed he took photographs of a Manchester football stadium before the Paris terror attacks as he boasted of how easily ISIS moved through Europe.
Mohamed Abrini - who has admitted to being the so-called Man in the Hat pictured at Brussels airport before two suicide bombers blew themselves up - told investigators he travelled to the UK and took photos of the unnamed stadium after returning unchallenged from Raqqa.
But the alleged terrorist, who has also been implicated in November's attacks on Paris, claimed the pictures had nothing to do with the later attack on the Stade de France.
Abrini told investigator he took the photographs after being sent to England to pick up £3,000 for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who he had met in Raqqa during summer 2015, according to Belgian broadcaster VTM.
Abaaoud - killed in a police raid in St Denis after the Paris attacks - had risen to the position of 'emir' within ISIS and had more than 1,000 extremists under his command at the time, Abrini claimed.
The Paris mastermind apparently asked Abrini to stay and fight, but he declined, travelling out of Syria through Turkey and to London, from where he went to pick up the money for Abaaoud's little brother, Yasin.
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