According to his mother, 31-year-old Ibrahim Abdeslam, one of the suicide bombers who took part in the brutal Paris bombings that killed 129 and injured 350 last Friday, "did not mean to kill anyone" and was likely to have blown himself up due to "stress," reports The Telegraph.
Ibrahim was one of two brothers who were involved in the deadly incident. His younger brother, Salah, is suspected to be the mastermind of the deadly attacks and is the target of an international manhunt.
Though Ibrahim detonated his suicide vest outside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe on Friday night, he failed to kill anyone but himself. According to his mother, his failure to kill any of his alleged targets was a clear indication that Ibrahim did not sincerely want to take any lives, according to The Daily Caller.
"This was not his plan, that's for sure. The fact that his bomb belt exploded without killing anyone else says a lot. Maybe the explosives went off prematurely by accident. Maybe it was stress," she said.
Mohammed, the middle brother, who has been detained, interrogated and subsequently cleared of all charges in the attacks, said that their family did not see a significant change in behavior between the two brothers.
"We don't know what has happened to Ibrahim and Salah. I did not know that they had been radicalized. I found out about it on the TV like everyone else," he said. "We were really surprised that Salah was involved. Ibrahim was different. We did see that he had been radicalized, at least in part. But not so much that we ever thought he would commit an atrocity like this."
He did, however, request privacy for his family.
"I am affected by what happened. I think of the victims, of the families of the victims. But you will also understand that we have a mother, we have a family," he said.
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