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Hamza Attou

Hamza Attou (born 1994) was an Islamic State member from Belgium who was one of the supposed getaway drivers during the November 2015 Paris attacks.

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Hamza Attou was born in 1994 in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium to a family of Sunni Muslim Moroccans. Attou joined the Islamic State, pledging allegiance to them and assisting in the November 2015 Paris attacks as a getaway driver. On 14 November 2015 he was arrested by Belgian police alongside Mohammed Amri after driving Salah Abdeslam out of France and into Belgium as a part of his getaway.On 30 June 2016,he was transfered to France,but on 19 June 2018,Attou was freed from prison.

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