Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam spent his first night behind bars on Saturday after on charges of "terrorist murder" for his role in orchestrating the worst-ever terror assault on French soil.

Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam spent his first night behind bars on Saturday after on charges of "terrorist murder" for his role in orchestrating the worst-ever terror assault on French soil.

Abdeslam, who was caught after being shot in the leg during a Friday police raid in Brussels, told interrogators he had planned to blow himself up at the Stade de France stadium in Paris but had backed out at the last minute.

The 26-year-old spent four months as Europe's most wanted man for his role in organizing the November 13 gun and suicide attacks on the French capital, which killed 130 people.

A day after he was caught, Abdeslam was charged with terrorist murder and participating in a terror group before being taken to a maximum security prison in the northwestern city of Bruges.

He is being held in the prison's "individual and special safety" wing which was built in 2008 for people who pose an escape risk or for those with particular behavioral problems, a spokeswoman said.

Although he was cooperating with the authorities, he would fight against plans to transfer him to France, his lawyer Sven Mary said.

Police have also detained a suspected accomplice of his, Mounir Ahmed Alaaj, also known as Amine Choukri, on the same terrorism charges.