Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office spokesman Jean-Pascal Thoreau says the arrests came after a auto with Belgian license plates was seen close to the Bataclan theater in Paris on Friday night, one of the places where victims were killed. Two of the other suspects are accused of ferrying Salah Abdeslam – the suspected attacker who has not been apprehended despite a Europe-wide manhunt – from Paris to Belgium after the killings.
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Abdeslam was stopped in the Hungary-Austria edge in September followed by two guys with fake IDs bearing Samir Bouzid and the names Soufiane Kayal. One of the IDs was also used to rent a house in the Belgian town of Auvelais that authorities have searched as a possible bomb-making site connected to the November 13 attacks.
Bouzid card was used four days after the terrorist acts to transfer €750 ($817) to a Western Union office in Brussels for Hasna Boulahcen, a cousin and accomplice of one of the attack organizers, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, AFP reports.
The Paris attacks on November 13 left 130 people dead.
Two suspects were charged on Thursday in relation to the Paris attacks, including a Frenchman reportedly held at Brussels airport as he tried to board a flight to Morocco.
The police warned public that the two are “dangerous and probably armed” and they should not intervene directly if they encountered either of them. The Hungarian government then began sending migrants at the station and those on the highway to the Austrian border by bus.
The attacks would target the Jewish community, the education system and the transportation system in Paris, according to the report citing Abaaoud.
Belgian prosecutors also said a second man, identified as Pierre N., was arrested during a raid hours after Sunday’s airport detention.
As European nations carried out retaliatory raids against ISIS in Syria, in California a woman sets up a picture of Paris attack victim Nohemi Gonzalez for her funeral at the Calvary Chapel in Downey, Calif., on Friday.
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Another of those charged, Ali Oulkadi, allegedly drove the key suspect around the Belgian capital.
