Prosecutors said Laachraoui’s DNA had been found at an apartment used by the Paris attackers that he rented under a false name in Auvelais, near the central Belgian city of Namur, and at another suspected hide-out in Schaarbeek, a district of Brussels.
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Laachraoui, whose nationality wasn’t disclosed, had traveled to Syria in February 2013, prosecutors said.
It’s an alias investigators have mentioned before.
“We hope to go as far as possible”, he said.
“There is a strong expectation from the French justice authorities and particularly from the families of the victims that Salah Abdeslam comes to explain himself”, Molins said.
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Speaking to security experts at a German Marshall Fund conference in Brussels, the foreign minister said, “We have found more than 30 people involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris, but we are sure that there are others”. Police found “heavy weapons” during two raids last week and gained useful information about Abdeslam’s network during early interrogations.
Investigators suspect both Laachraoui and Belkaid spoke to the other terrorists by phone on the night of the Paris attacks.
“We don’t have the full timeline for what Salah Abdeslam did between November 14 and his arrest”, Van Leeuw said. He also said he was considering ideas to “restart something” around Brussels, Deputy Prime Minister Reynders said.
Spokeswoman Frauke Kohler said she could release no further details while police investigate. Abdeslam was formally charged on Saturday with involvement in terrorist murder along with Choukri. Every time police got close to Abdeslam he managed to escape and move to a new location. The identity of Salah Abdeslam is confirmed Saturday March 19, 2016, by French police and deputy mayor of Molenbeek, Ahmed El Khannouss quoting official Belgium police sources. It had previously been disclosed that weapons (a Kalashnikov rifle and ammunition) and an ISIS flag were found at the residence, but not explosives.
The prosecutor said that at worst it could take three months for Abdeslam to be handed over to France after the 26-year old said he would oppose extradition to his homeland.
Reynders urged European intelligence, law enforcement and border authorities to exchange more information to help track the suspects down.
Abdeslam has told investigators he planned to blow himself up outside the Stade de France but changed his mind. Belgian prosecutors said it wasn’t known whether he had been at the address in the Schaerbeek district before or after the Paris attacks, or how long he had spent there. One of his brothers is thought to be in Syria, fighting for “Islamic State” (IS).
Mary continued his criticism of Molins on Monday, saying: “We don’t have a single lesson to learn from France”.
He is being held in the maximum-security area of the Bruges prison, a spokeswoman for the Belgian prison administration told ABC News.
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Graphic profiling known and suspected people implicated in the November 13 Paris attacks. Alaaj was also wounded in Friday’s gunbattle. Stopping one terror cell, “can push others into action”, he told public radio. The third was freed without being charged.
