“The Federal Prosecutor’s Office along with the inquiring judge want to attract the public again to keep an eye out for two new defendants the investigators are actively seeking for”, the prosecutor’s statement said.
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Belgium on Friday said it was hunting for two unidentified terror suspects it said are “armed and dangerous” and who used false ID papers to help Salah Abdeslam, wanted over the Paris attacks claimed by Isil.
The second suspect, a 28-year-old Belgian, was arrested in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, where several of the Paris attackers lived, including suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud who was killed in a raid by French police. Officers there allege the same id of Kayal was used to rent a home within the Belgian town of Auvelais in that authorities have searched as a attainable website for making the suicide bombs used within the November 13 assaults in Paris.
Both faces charges relating to the Paris attacks and have been remanded in custody for a month.
At least one person connected to the attacks was thought to have traveled to Britain beforehand, according to the WSJ. “Two other suspects have been charged…in the framework of the Paris attacks”, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office told AFP on Thursday, adding that they had been detained on Sunday.
Among those held are Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou who are suspected of having brought Salah Abdeslam back to Brussels.
Another of those charged, Ali Oulkadi, allegedly drove the key suspect around the Belgian capital. Both of the newly publicized suspects – the men going by the names of Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid – were at the store from which the money was sent. One more suspect remains unidentified, although some media have reported that his name is Abdeilah Chouaa. They were in a Renault Clio that was later used in the attacks.
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Counter-terrorism police said they were helping authorities on the continent with the investigation.
