That network also included Abdelhamid Abbaoud, the Paris attack ringleader, and Najim Laachraoui, one of the three suicide bombers who struck Brussels this week.
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Belgian state broadcaster RTBF and France’s Le Monde are reporting that a second attacker is suspected of taking part in the bombing this week of a Brussels subway train and may be at large.
A police official declined to say why the notice was taken down, but added that all requests to publish or remove notices come from prosecutors.
France is seeking Abdeslam’s extradition to face justice for his involvement in the November 13 attacks on a Paris rock concert, stadium and cafes, which killed 130 people. “We perhaps did things we should not have done”.
As for reassuring the nervous Belgian public, the prime minister said that there would be “no grey areas” in the investigation and hunt for more terrorists. The Dutch authorities had also been alerted, Ankara said.
Investigators suspect that Abdeslam was probably going to be part of an attack being planned by the ISIS that carried out blasts in Brussels airport and in the city’s metro.
Six people were arrested Thursday in a series of police raids in Brussels, federal prosecutors said, two days after jihadist attacks in the Belgian capital left 31 dead.
Ibrahim and Khalid Bakraoui, who both blew themselves up, were also on the U.S. terror watch list, according to Reuters. He was pushing a luggage trolley that contained a bomb hidden in a suitcase.
Mr Jambon has admitted that “errors” were made by security services and today offered his resignation, which was rejected by the country’s Prime Minister.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Ibrahim El Bakraoui had been deported on July 14, 2015, and that Belgium had subsequently ignored a warning that he was a militant. It is not clear whether that man was killed in the attack. “It is the only moment we could have linked him to it. And that moment, perhaps, we missed”. Two others were arrested in Brussels and a sixth was detained in Jette, on the outskirts. Three of them were detained right in front of the prosecutor’s office; of those three, two have been released and one remains in custody.
Belgian police had already been searching for Laachraoui before that as a suspected accomplice of Salah Abdeslam._Abdelhamid AbaaoudThe Belgian-Moroccan extremist is thought to have orchestrated the Paris attacks.
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Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national born in Belgium, did not have prior knowledge of the Brussels bombings and had stopped co-operating with police following the attacks, his lawyer Sven Mary said.
