Fugitive Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam captured in anti-terror raid

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March 18, 2016

 

Salah Abdeslam, the main fugitive from Islamic extremist attacks in Paris in November, was arrested in Belgium's capital Friday ending a manhunt that stretched on for four months, officials confirmed.

 

He was shot in the leg and arrested in a major police operation in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, deputy mayor Ahmed El Khannouss said. Two other suspects were also in custody, French president Francois Hollande added. Fox News has confirmed the raid is over.

 

A spokesman for the Belgium federal prosecutor's office says four people have been detained along with Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam, including three members of a family that sheltered him.

 

The raid and investigation show more people were involved in the Paris attacks than anti-terror officials initially thought, Hollande said. The Nov. 13 gun and bomb attacks killed 130 people at a theatre, the national stadium and cafes.

 

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Belgium hunts for man linked to key Paris attacks suspect
JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and ELAINE GANLEY
Mar. 21, 2016


In this undated combination photo provided by the Belgian Federal Police in Brussels on Monday

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities are focusing a new search on a man known to have traveled with key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who was captured last week in Brussels, officials said Monday.

 

Federal prosecutors appealed to the public for information about 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, who allegedly traveled to Hungary with Abdeslam before the Nov. 13 carnage, and has been traced to safe houses under a false name. Laachraoui was checked by guards at the Austria-Hungary border on Sept. 9 while driving in a Mercedes with Abdeslam and one other person, Belgium's federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Laachraoui, whose nationality wasn't disclosed, had traveled to Syria in February 2013, prosecutors said. It wasn't clear when he returned to Europe. Using a false identity, Laachraoui also rented a house under the name of Soufiane Kayal in the Belgian town of Auvelais that was allegedly used as a safe house, where prosecutors said traces of his DNA were found. The house was searched Nov. 26. Laachraoui is "someone who must explain himself," Belgian prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said, stressing that "clues" don't amount to proof.

 

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