Abdeslam has not cooperated with police since attack: lawyer

Salah Abdeslam, the suspected Paris attacker arrested in Brussels on March 18, has not cooperated with investigators since the attacks in the Belgian capital, his lawyer told Europe 1 radio in an interview broadcast today.
"I think he wanted to see me because he had a visit from the investigators" on Tuesday, said lawyer Sven Mary.
Asked if Abdeslam had cooperated with the investigators following the triple bomb attack in Brussels, Mary said: "No".
"I don't want him to close up again. If he closes up again, we will be facing more cases like Zaventem and the Bataclan," he said, referring to Brussels airport hit Tuesday and the Paris concert hall struck by jihadists on November 13.

Asked what Abdeslam thought of the Brussels attacks, Mary said: "I don't want to know what he thinks. At this stage, it's not important."
Abdeslam, 26, who was shot in the leg during his arrest last Friday in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, "is recovering bit by bit from his injury, which was not serious," Mary said.

Investigators believe Abdeslam played a key role in organising the attacks in Paris but appears to have dumped his suicide vest at the last minute.
He was caught after four months on the run, and is being kept in a high-security prison in Bruges in northwest Belgium.

Shortly after his arrest, Mary had told reporters that Abdeslam was cooperating with investigators.