Several dozen people were killed in a series of unprecedented attacks around Paris.
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Samir Z had already tried to travel to Syria twice this year.
They have appeared before a court, which has extended their detention.
In Belgium, meanwhile, two more suspects in the Paris attacks were taken into custody facing terrorism charges.
The French Finance Ministry’s intelligence unit Tracfin said prepaid cards, some bought in Belgium, were used to pay for cars and apartments used by the assailants in the 48 hours preceding the attacks.
A Belgian judge ordered two people to be kept under arrest Thursday as part of the investigation into the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, including a man who was detained as he prepared to board a flight to Morocco.
One was held on Sunday at an airport in Brussels trying to leave for Morocco, prosecutors said.
Belgian Pierre N., born in 1987, was also detained during a search at his home in the Brussels district of Molenbeek on Sunday morning. He said the secret services did not have this information at the time of the November 13 Paris attacks nor as the Budapest train station became a hotspot last summer during Europe’s migrant crisis.
In Belgium, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office yesterday confirmed reports that the two new suspects in the Paris attacks had been arrested on Sunday.
One suspect, a 20-year-old Frenchman, knew Bilal Hadfi, one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up at the French national stadium, according to Flemish public television VRT.
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Both men were charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and hail from Molenbeek, a Brussels neighborhood linked to at least three other attackers in Paris.
