Friday, 18 March 2016

Brussels raids: Paris attack suspect Abdeslam arrested

                                   
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been wounded and arrested in a raid in Brussels, officials have said.
At least one other suspect is believed to be holed up in a building in the Molenbeek area and the raid is ongoing.
Abdeslam, who had been on the run since the attacks in November, was wounded in the leg as police moved in on a flat in the Molenbeek area.
The raid comes after his fingerprints were found in a Brussels flat that was raided on Tuesday.
Dramatic footage shows a man, thought to be Abdeslam, being bundled into a police car after a volley of gunfire.
Abdeslam's fingerprints were found in a flat in the southern Forest suburb of Brussels that was raided on Tuesday, although prosecutors said the prints could not be dated.
One man - identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid and linked to the Paris attacks - was shot dead in Tuesday's raid.
Officials said at the time they believed as many as two other suspects may have escaped.

The man killed on Tuesday, Belkaid, is believed to have used the a false ID in the name of Samir Bouzid, which was used during to cross the border between Austria and Hungary with Abdeslam and another man last September, the Belgian prosecutor's office said.
The false ID was also used four days after the Paris attacks at a Western Union office in Brussels to transfer money to Hasna Aitboulahcen, who Belgian prosecutors say was the niece of the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks,Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Both Abaaoud and Aitboulahcen died during a police raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. days after the Paris attacks.
Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national born in Brussels, had lived in Molenbeek before the 13 November attacks.

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