The photo is accompanied by an appeal to the public for information about the man.
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The closed entrance to the Central Subway Station in Brussels. The city’s above-ground trams and buses operated normally.
The city was a base for the attackers – Islamic State militants – who killed 130 people in Paris.
Prime Minister Charles Michel has advised the public to be alert rather than panic-stricken, but also said Brussels risked Paris-style coordinated attacks.
“We are talking about the threat that several individuals with arms and explosives would launch an attack, perhaps in several locations at the same time”, Mr Michel said, adding people should be alert but not panic. Paris officials say they have no firm information on Abdeslam’s whereabouts, including whether he was in the Brussels area. The city is expected to remain under lockdown until at least Sunday afternoon, when the government will reassess the situation.
“It also suggests they don’t have a handle on it, that they don’t know where these plotters are or where they’re coming from”, he added.
On the streets, tour guide Stephane Bruno was planning to take a group of Americans around the city, but they cancelled on advice from the U.S. embassy.
A string of terrorist attacks in recent years have had links to Belgian capital’s Molenbeek neighbourhood, just 25-minutes walk from the centre of Brussels.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon in part attributed the elevated alert level and stepped-up police activity to the search for multiple terrorism suspects.
Abdeslam is known to have crossed into Belgium the morning after the attacks.
Prosecutors said Friday that they had determined through fingerprint checks that two of the seven attackers who died in the bloodshed November 13 had entered Europe through Greece, an entry point for numerous hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in Europe.
But Jambon said Sunday that the threat facing Brussels wouldn’t necessarily disappear if Abdeslam was found, because “unfortunately, the threat is wider than this (one) figure”. While this report would seemingly raise questions about the devout Muslim man, the actions of Abdeslam may mirror those taken by the five al-Qaeda terrorists who were spotted in Florida strip clubs shortly before the 9/11 attacks in America.
Several of the Paris attackers had lived in Brussels, including suspected mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed in a stand-off with French police on Wednesday.
However, as most museums in Paris reopened on Monday last week, the majority of Taiwanese with scheduled trips to the city have chosen to go ahead with their tours.
Brussels’ terror alert remains high as Belgian authorities continue to seek out suspected ISIS members linked to the Paris attacks.
“In Turkey, police arrested a Belgian man suspected of scouting out sites for the Paris attacks”.
Boulahcen, 26, was a relative of Abaaoud, official sources in France told CNN.
Instead, a man wearing a suicide device was the one that detonated, the prosecutor’s office told CNN.
They sang and danced on Place de la Republique, in the heart of a trendy neighborhood where scores of people were killed.
In the aftermath of the attacks on Paris, attention turned to the failings of Belgian security to identify a few of its extremist cells or “hotbeds of radicalization” before it was too late.
France has extended a state of emergency – which allows police raids, searches and house arrest without permission from a judge – for three months.
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The French military has also stepped up its bombardment of ISIS targets in Syria, launching waves of airstrikes on the militant group’s self-declared capital, Raqqa.
