Belgian man wanted over Paris attacks is arrested – reports

Mohamed Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian wanted in connection with November’s Islamic State attacks in Paris, has been arrested, a police source confirmed to AFP on Friday.

Mohamed Abrini.

Abrini has been on Europe’s most wanted list since being identified on CCTV in a car with terror suspect Salah Abdeslam two days before the attacks in the French capital on 13 November. Abrini was at the wheel of the Renault Clio that was later used by a team of gunmen in the Paris attacks.

Abdeslam, Abrini’s childhood friend, was arrested in Brussels two weeks ago, four days before Isis suicide bombers struck the city’s airport and a metro station.

Mohamed Abrini

The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office confirmed it had made several arrests related to the deadly attacks in Brussels on March 22 but gave no further details.
There was no official comment on whether Abrini was also connected to the Brussels metro and airport attacks.

Belgian police are continuing to search for a third airport bomber known as the “man in the hat” seen with two suicide bombers on security camera footage at Brussels airport on 22 March. The “man in the hat” left a bag containing a bomb at the airport before walking out of the terminal and crossing Brussels on foot.



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