According to "Yahoo! News", the cell initially planned to launch a second assault on Paris following the November 2015 attacks there. However, they chose to rush an attack on Brussels after being surprised by the progress of the French investigation. The targets in the planned follow-up attacks were identified as the La Défense business district, which was slated to be attacked by Abaaoud on 19 November, and a police station. In September 2016, CNN claimed to have obtained 90,000 pages of documents on the Paris attacks investigation, which said that ISIL leaders reportedly planned other attacks in France and the Netherlands on 13 November 2015.