Two people in Belgium have been charged with participating and preparing terrorist attacks in connection to Friday’s terrorist assault in Paris, Belgian officials have confirmed. He had been a target since January after allegedly plotting to murder Belgian police and has been on the run ever since.
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The Islamic terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the slaughter, which France’s President described as “an act of war”.
As investigators piece together information about who could be on the loose, details are emerging about several of the seven attackers who authorities say were killed. Neighbors were told to stay away from the street where masked police have sealed off a section.
Hadfi is seen holding up his index finger in a screenshot from a now-deleted video post from his Facebook account calling for attacks on the West. The suicide bombers sent to attack the football match between France and Germany did not inflict many casualties. Four were French, while the fifth man was fingerprinted in Greece in October and was possibly Syrian.
Reflecting just how nervous Paris is right now, a panic broke out Sunday evening in a crowd gathered at a memorial erected at one of the sites of Friday’s terror attacks. The French prosecutor’s office said seven of the eight assailants died in suicide bombings, the Associated Press reported.
A victim is wheeled out of the Bataclan concert hall the morning after a series of deadly attacks in Paris, November 14, 2015.
“We have to be able to trace these links wherever they are, whether it’s in France or Belgium or elsewhere in Europe”, Reynders said.
Three of his relatives are now in custody, it said.
Security services were already under pressure after missing an opportunity to detain Salah Abdeslam, 26, who is at the centre of an worldwide manhunt after he rented a auto used to carry gunmen to the Bataclan, hours after the carnage in Paris. At least three were French. His brother, Ibrahim Abdeslam, was purportedly one of the suicide bombers.
Five of the detainees were identified over the weekend, and on Monday another two were named by the Paris prosecutor as Ahmad al-Mohammad and Samy Amimour. 129 people were killed and more than 350 people were hurt in attacks at six locations.
It was revealed on Sunday that Abdeslam had been able to cross the French border to Belgium following the attacks, after showing identification to authorities at the crossing.
A spokesman later told AFP the second vehicle was discovered in the eastern suburb of Montreuil – correcting an earlier statement which said it was found near Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery.
Authorities are searching for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national born in Brussels.
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Additionally, Benyaich, whose background is Belgian and Moroccan, said Molenbeek had an “enormous” black market, which made it hard for local authorities to enforce law and order. Now, his whereabouts are unknown.
