The brother of one of the two suicide bombers who died at the airport killed himself in the bomb on the metro. Investigators said Laachraoui was an accomplice of Salah Abdeslam, 26, a suspect in the Paris attacks who was captured last week.
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Abdeslam, arrested last week in Brussels and initially cooperative, had “exercised his right to silence” and said nothing when interviewed after Tuesday’s bombings according to prosecutors in Brussels.
Two of the three – Tawfik A and the man detained in Schaerbeek – were wounded in the leg, the statement said.
The Belgian prosecutor’s office confirmed three people had been detained in total in Brussels following Friday’s (March 25) operation, all of whom are related to the “thwarted French attack plot “http://www.euronews.com/2016/03/25/paris-anti-terror-raid-foils-imminent-french-attack/, made public by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Thursday (March 24).
Heavily armed police and military and bomb disposal experts were on the scene in Schaerbeek.
French newspaper Le Monde said it had based its report on the minutes of two hours of interrogation on March 19, the only questioning Abdeslam faced between his arrest a day earlier and the attacks three days later.
“The federal prosecutor has just informed me that Salah Abdeslam no longer wants to talk since the attacks on Zaventem (airport) and the Brussels metro”, he said.
Kerry landed at the still-closed Brussels airport for a brief, hastily scheduled stop from Moscow, where he said the attacks underscored the urgency of unity in the fight against the Islamic State group.
Standing alongside Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, he expressed his condolences and solidarity with Belgium, declaring “Je suis Bruxellois ” .
U.S Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Brussels on Friday to offer US assistance in security.
“We will come back with greater resolve – with greater strength – and we will not rest until we have eliminated your nihilistic beliefs and cowardice from the face of the Earth”, Kerry said at the ceremony, referring to IS.
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Meanwhile it was also revealed that one of the Brussels airport suicide bombers had previously been on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list. At least three people were arrested in raids across the capital, as authorities begin to unravel the links between the attacks in Belgium and the November attacks in Paris. He has since been named as Reda Kriket.
