Suspected of planning violent action, Salah Abdeslam’s ex-partner was indicted this Monday for “terrorist criminal association”.
Maëva B., the ex-partner of Salah Abdeslam who is suspected of planning violent action, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention this Monday, November 10, for “terrorist criminal association”, BFMTV learned from a judicial source.
In this case, her new religious husband, a 20-year-old man living in Isère, and a 17-year-old minor, living in Hérault, were also indicted, in accordance with the requisitions of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat).
Maëva B. is “fascinated by jihad”
Maëva B. was also indicted for “illicit delivery of objects to detainees” and placed under judicial supervision. On January 15, the prison administration discovered traces of connections of four USB keys between December 2024 and January 2025 on the computer legally owned by Salah Abdeslam in Vendin-le-Vieil where he is detained. The investigators followed the trail of Maëva B. who had a visit permit. Placed in police custody, she admitted having given a USB key loaded with jihadist propaganda to Salah Abdeslam during a visit.
The searches carried out at his home allowed investigators to reveal a “certain radicalization” and a “fascination with jihad” but also and above all “several discussions or research relating to the development of a distinct project of violent action”, according to the Pnat. Facts “unrelated to Salah Abdeslam from whom she was separated and with whom she had no longer maintained relations since April 2025”, again according to the Pnat. Comments confirmed by the director general of internal security, Céline Berthon, who assures that Salah Abdeslam “is not implicated in a planned attack”.
“Salah Abdeslam is obviously a very symbolic figure (…) on the facts with which he is accused, on which the anti-terrorism justice will be required to communicate today, he is not implicated in a planned attack. So I believe that we must be clear on this subject”, she clarified on RTL this Monday.
In June 2022, Salah Abdeslam was sentenced to irreducible life imprisonment in the trial of the November 13 attacks which France is preparing to commemorate, ten years after the tragedy.
