"Someone asked me to put two humans up for three days, and I did them a favor," Jawad Ben Dow told reporters abreast the arena anon afore he was apparent bedfast by police. "It's normal."
Ben Dow, who was not home at the time, said he abstruse of the annoy on his accommodation from media reports.
"I begin out that it's at my abode and that the humans are holed up at my flat," he said. "I didn't apperceive they were terrorists."
French admiral say two humans were dead — including a woman who allegedly blew herself up with a suicide belong as badge confused in — and 5 others arrested in a arrest that was targeting Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the declared administrator of endure week's baleful attacks in Paris.
Officials accept not said whether Abaaoud, a 27-year-old Belgian of Moroccan appropriate who was initially anticipation to accept been in Syria, was one of the suspects dead or arrested in the seven-hour standoff.Ben Dow said he didn't apperceive if the humans he agreed to acquiesce break in his accommodation were Belgian.
"I don't apperceive area they came from," he said. "I don't apperceive anything. If I'd known, do you anticipate I'd accept done it?"
It's cryptic whether Ben Dow was one of those arrested or whether he will face charges.
"It is absurd to acquaint you who was arrested," Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters at the end of the operation. "We are in the action of acceptance that. Everything will be done to actuate who is who."
The arrest began at about 4:30 a.m. bounded time in the arctic Paris suburb, area assemblage said loud explosions and battery could be heard for hours as heavily armed units swarmed the neighborhood.
"They were cutting for an hour. Nonstop," Amine Guizani told the Associated Press. "There were grenades. It was going, stopping. Kalashnikovs. Starting again."
The accommodation is amid just over a mile from the Stade de France, the amphitheater alfresco of which three suicide bombers blew themselves during Friday's rampage.
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