Authorities in Morocco have arrested a suspect implicated in the ISIS attack in Paris on 13 November that left 130 dead.
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The man who has been detained is of Moroccan origin and had fought in Syria with al-Nusra front before joining so-called Islamic State, Morocco said.
Khiame says it was his country that put French and Belgian police on the trail of the network behind the Paris attacks that killed 130, and likely spared more lives by pinpointing the location of the man considered the main organizer, holed up outside the French capital.
The suspect, whose initials could be translated to J.A. or G.A., was arrested on January 15 in the city of Mohammedia, the statement added.
He was arrested near Casablanca after travelling through Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Several of the attackers lived in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, home to numerous Belgians of Moroccan descent.
The most high-profile fugitive in the attacks is French national Salah Abdesalam, who has been the subject of an intense worldwide manhunt since he slipped through the fingers of police in the days after the attacks. They both also travelled to Syria where they joined ISIS.
French President Francois Hollande vowed to attack Islamic State without mercy as the jihadist group admitted responsibility Saturday for orchestrating the deadliest attacks inflicted on France since World War II.
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