A French police source said the raid in the Brussels suburb of Schaerbeek was related to the arrest of 34-year-old Reda Kriket in Paris on Thursday, who was found with heavy weapons and explosives in his apartment.
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Armed police launched a major new raid in Brussels in the wake of the suicide attacks, in the Schaerbeek area of the capital, Belgian media reported Friday, a day after six suspects were arrested over the carnage.
One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings was deported from Turkey twice a year ago and the authorities warned their European counterparts that they suspected him of being a militant fighter, two Turkish officials said on Thursday.
A US law enforcement official confirmed to CBS News on Friday that Belgian authorities want to find and question a man named Abdelhamid Kassoul, to determine whether he was the third, still officially-unidentified man seen at the airport with bombers Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui.
Authorities say Salah Abdeslam, 26, may have been the driver of a black Renault Clio that dropped off three suicide bombers near the Stade de France, one of the sites attacked in Paris. He is one of two of the attackers who have been publicly identified.
Khalid El Bakraoui blew himself up on the train, while Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Laachraoui died in the airport.
“It’s much easier to get into Europe than to get into the United States for example because of geography”, said Daniel Benjamin, former U.S. Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism.
The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said Abdeslam and two other suspected accomplices appeared in court Thursday.
At least one German man suffered serious injuries in the blasts, which hit the Belgian capital’s airport and metro system early on Tuesday morning.
Daesh has also claimed responsibly for the deadly Paris attacks that took the lives of 130 people and injured some 350 in November 2015.
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The computer on which Ibrahim wrote the will was dumped in a trash can in the same street in the Brussels district of Schaarbeek where investigators found an unexploded bomb, an Islamic State group flag and bomb-making materials last night.
