Belgian authorities have charged the two men who drove from Brussels to Paris to pick him up in the early hours of 14 November, as well as Abraimi Lazez, 39, who was detained after police found two handguns and traces of blood in his auto.
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He said 4,000 individuals had been questioned at 285 border control points following the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and were claimed by the Islamic State group.
Oulkadi’s lawyer said on Friday that Oulkadi had driven key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam across Brussels the day after the atrocities without knowing he had been involved.
When he arrived, however, this friend was with another man whom Oulkadi did not immediately recognise because he was wearing a pulled down hat, Martins said.
Investigators haven’t detailed what they believe Abdeslam’s role was in the coordinated series of attacks, but Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said he may have dropped off suicide bombers at the Stade de France and then made his way to another Paris neighborhood. The first two people to be charged in Belgium over the Paris attacks were Mohammed Amri, 27, and Hamza Attou, 20, who were accused last Monday on suspicion of helping Salah Abdeslam escape to Brussels after the carnage.
Cazeneuve, speaking on Saturday in the eastern city of Strasbourg, said that almost 15,000 police, gendarmes and customs officials are manning France’s borders, notably the northern borders that are entryways to Belgium, where the three teams of attackers started their deadly journey, and to Germany.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel agreed to “launch an initiative” when they met at the United Nations climate summit in Paris on Monday, a source in the French premier’s entourage said.
The federal prosecutor said in a statement that the man was charged him with terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation but gave no further details.
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Oulkadi’s lawyer Olivier Martins said his client had no criminal record and “absolutely” no terror links, so should be released. “When he learned that Salah was wanted, he should have gone to the police and told his story, but he was scared and didn’t get the right advice at the time”.
