PARIS (Reuters) -French anti-terrorist prosecutors have launched a new investigation into Salah Abdeslam, the only convicted perpetrator of the 2015 Paris attacks, on suspicion he sneaked a flash drive holding jihadist content into his prison cell.

The French prison authority found in January that Abdeslam, who is allowed to have a computer in his cell, had connected it to a USB drive four times in December 2024 and January 2025, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

“Computer analysis revealed the presence of numerous recordings in the form of ‘access paths’ to audio, image, or video files, most of which related to official propaganda from terrorist organisations, such as the Islamic State or al Qaeda,” the statement said.

The suspected offences included having illegal objects i

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