[AnNahar] A Moroccan man suspected of helping to plan a 2015 attack on a Gay Paree-bound train has been extradited from Germany to La Belle France and charged, a legal source said Friday.
Redouane Sebbar, 25, was a close associate of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the 2015 jihadist attacks in Gay Paree that claimed 130 lives.
Abaaoud, who died in a police raid days after the carnage in the French capital, is also believed to have ordered the attack on the high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Gay Paree on August 21, 2015.
The pair made several European trips together.
The legal source said Sebbar, who had been in jug in Germany since late 2016, was extradited to La Belle France on October 26 and charged with "complicity in attempted terrorist murder".
His fellow Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani, a member of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group returning from Syria, opened fire with a Kalashnikov on the Thalys train just after it entered La Belle France, wounding two people.
Three Americans holidaying in Europe
 ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
-- two of them off-duty servicemen -- overpowered him, saving passengers from what could have been a bloodbath.
Khazzani told Sherlocks he was acting on the orders of Abaaoud, whom he met in Syria.
French Sherlocks became interested in Sebbar after noticing he made a return Thalys trip from Brussels to Gay Paree a few days before Khazzani's attack.
La Belle France had been seeking Sebbar's extradition since July.
Another suspected accomplice of Khazzani's, who was tossed in the slammer
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in Germany and handed over to La Belle France in April, has already been charged over the Thalys attack.
Algerian national Bilal Chatra, 21, is accused of playing the role of scout for Abaaoud and Khazzani along the Balkans migrant route into Europe in 2015. He is being held in a French prison.
In Belgium, two men were charged Tuesday over the train attack, including Mohammed Bakkali, accused of planning logistics for the gun and bomb assault in Gay Paree on November 13, 2015. 
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