Belgian police have detained two people for questioning after a number of raids on properties in Brussels in an investigation linked to militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November, federal prosecutors said.
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“The investigating judge, specialised in terrorism cases, has released all five persons who were arrested during operations yesterday evening and this morning, after thorough interrogation by the Federal Judicial Police”, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Attou said that Abdeslam “told us to take him back to Brussels or he would blow up the vehicle”, the source added.
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Abdeslam instructed Attou and Amri to take minor roads, to avoid the arrest but the two adults got lost and found themselves driving on a main motorway.
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At the first checkpoint they were asked if they had “consumed” any substances.
Police then let the men go, without asking to check their papers.
Abdeslam had told them he left his brother’s ID card in a vehicle – he did not say which auto – “so that he would be known the world over like Coulibaly”. YVES HERMAN/REUTERS Police officers found no drugs or explosives throughout the raids.
Belgian police believed the occupants of the raided home had been in contact with the alleged attackers, according to local news reports.
Eight other people who were detained earlier in Belgium in connection with last month’s attacks in Paris are still in preventive custody.
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By the time Belgian authorities searched a house in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek days after the attacks, the Belgium-born French national was not present, he said. They have now concluded that the attacks were followed minute-by-minute by an unknown suspect in Belgium.
