Paris attacks: defendant says he changed his mind at last moment

Salah Abdeslam says he was shocked' when asked to blow himself up in a cafe and was given no details about the targets

The last surviving suspected assailant in the deadly 2015 Paris attacks has told a court that he changed his mind about going through with the killings at the last moment.

The objective I was given was to go to a cafe in the 18th" district in northern Paris, Salah Abdeslam told the special Paris court hearing the case. I'm going into the cafe, I'm ordering a drink, I'm looking at the people around me - and I said to myself: No, I'm not going to do it.'"