Paris attacks: Key suspect Abrini arrested in Brussels
Source: BBC
The key remaining suspect in November's Paris terror attacks, Mohamed Abrini, has been arrested in Belgium, prosecutors have confirmed.
Belgian media say Abrini is also likely to be the "man in the hat" seen on CCTV before the blasts in the Brussels airport departure hall on 22 March.
Prosecutors said four arrests were made, with one man being investigated over the attack on the Brussels metro.
The attacks on the two sites left 32 people dead. The gun and bomb attacks in Paris on 13 November killed 130 people.
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(29,876 posts)Brussels (AP) -- Belgian authorities arrested five men suspected of links to last month's bombings in Brussels on Friday, including the last remaining identified fugitive in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.
After weeks of speculation about a mysterious "man in the hat" who escaped the Brussels attacks while three suicide bombers blew themselves up, authorities were checking whether that man was indeed Mohamed Abrini, the last identified suspect at large from the Paris attacks until Friday.
Abrini is now suspected in playing a role in the two biggest attacks carried out by the Islamic State in Europe over the past year, killing a total of 162 people 130 in Paris and 32 in Brussels. French authorities had renewed their call to arrest an armed and dangerous Abrini within hours of the March 22 Brussels attacks.
"We are investigating if Abrini can be positively identified as the third person present during the attacks in Brussels National Airport (Zaventem), the so called man in the hat," said prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-08/urgent-several-arrests-made-in-relation-to-brussels-attacks
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