Belgian police have found three vests for possible use in suicide attacks, traces of explosives and a fingerprint of fugitive Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam at a flat in Brussels, prosecutors said.
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The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks carried out by suicide bombers that killed 130 people.
He is believed to have rented a VW Polo vehicle in Belgium, which was later found near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where 89 people were killed.
A Brussels apartment was likely used to make bombs for the Paris attacks, and one of the plotters also hid out there after escaping a police dragnet, Belgian prosecutors said Friday.
“We found the fingerprint but we have no idea when it was left – a fingerprint has no date or time on it”, Van Der Sypt told AFP.
The prosecutor’s office said the three handmade belts discovered in the search at Rue Berge in Schaerbeek “could have been intended for the transport of explosives”. “I suppose it’s a possibility of both”, he added.
Belgian federal prosecutors said in the statement that police raided the apartment in the Schaerbeek district of the Belgian capital on December 10, according to news reports from the Belgian capital.
One of them was Abdeslam’s brother, Brahim.
An global arrest warrant is out on Abdeslam, who is understood to have returned to the Belgian capital the day after the bloodshed.
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Many of those arrested in Belgium have links to Abdeslam, including two who drove from Brussels hours after the attacks to pick him up and another who drove him from one part of Brussels to Schaerbeek after his return, Reuters reported.
