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.
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According to the police statement, Kayal and Bouzid were also traveling with Salah Abdeslam in Hungary in September, as they were accompanying him when he was stopped by police at the Hungarian-Austrian border on September 9.
Authorities also said previously they are looking for a man who is believed to have driven Abdeslam to Paris on November 13.
“These people used fake Belgian identity cards, of Samir Bouzid and Sufyan Kayala”, the prosecutor’s office said.
The BBC reports that this brings the number of people charged in Belgium up to eight, after some of the attackers involved in the Paris attacks were revealed to have lived in Belgium.
The identity card of Samir Bouzid was used to transfer money to Hasna Aitboulahcen, the cousin of attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, four days after the attacks, police said. 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.
Prosecutors said anyone who sees the men or has information about them should contact police.
Another suspect is Lazez Abraimi, in whose auto police found two handguns and traces of blood.
The suspect, a 20-year-old Frenchman, was held for questioning at Zaventem airport, northwest of Brussels, as he prepared to board a flight to Morocco, the broadcaster said.
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Both were charged with participating in a terrorist organisation. Belgian special operations forces made an arrest during a raid in Molenbeek, a suburb of Brussels, but failed to apprehend Salah Abdeslam, sought by French authorities for a suspected role in the Paris attacks, the…
