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 Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has admitted he wanted to blow himself up but then changed his mind, a French prosecutor says. At a hearing before a judge in Belgium on Saturday, Mr. Abdeslam made it clear that he would fight extradition to France, said his lawyer, Sven Mary. Abdeslam was arrested on Friday in a police raid in the Belgian capital, four months after the Paris attacks which left 130 people dead. Salah Abdeslam is believed to be the last surviving member of the 10-man jihadist team that carried out the Paris attacks, which Islamic State claimed responsibility for. Abdeslam is charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says. Photo 
 
 BRUSSELS — Salah Abdeslam, believed to be the only direct participant in the November attacks in Paris who is still alive, told investigators on Saturday after being captured a day earlier that he wanted to detonate his suicide vest at the Stade de France soccer stadium on the night of the attacks but “backed out,” said the lead terrorism prosecutor in France. His seizure in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek after he spent four months on the run brought relief to people who had seen his wanted poster all over two countries for months. Meanwhile, it has emerged Abdeslam's brother Brahim, who blew himself up at a restaurant as part of the attacks, was buried just a day before his brother was captured. Mr. Abdeslam was captured with another person suspected of being an accomplice, and both were taken to a Brussels hospital. Mr Molins said Abdeslam played a "central role" in the attacks, which targeted bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France.
– " It was an absolutely cold track," a French intel veteran of the hunt for Salah Abdeslam as of Monday night. Four months into the hunt for the key terrorist in the Paris attacks, officials didn't know if he was still in Europe or if he'd slipped through to Syria. But, as Time reports, "on Tuesday, that changed entirely": A SWAT team investigating another matter caught gunfire from an apartment in a Brussels suburb; grainy cell phone video indicated Abdeslam might've been among those who escaped, and a fingerprint inside confirmed his presence—hidden right in plain sight. Another coincidence: Abdeslam's slain brother, Ibrahim, a suicide bomber at the Paris cafe, was finally being buried Thursday. Cops tapped the phones of 20 of the brothers' friends who collected Ibrahim Abdeslam's body, which apparently gave them intel to set up Friday's successful raid in Mollenbeek. " This is a really, really good thing, that he was captured alive," says Mollenbeek's deputy mayor. Meanwhile, Abdeslam is talking, reports the BBC. "Salah Abdeslam today during questioning by [Belgian] investigators affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France and that he had backed down,' " Paris' prosecutor said Saturday. Abdeslam's lawyer says he's planning to file a legal complaint against the prosecutor for that particular disclosure, reports Sky News. Abdeslam is also fighting extradition to France, adds the New York Times. But investigators believe he wasn't idle while on the run: Abdeslam said "he was ready to restart something from Brussels, and it's maybe the reality," says Belgium's foreign minister. "We found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations, and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brussels."