On Monday two more were arrested, the prosecution said in a statement, naming them as Smail F, born in 1984, and Ibrahim F, born in 1988.
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At the time, police said they found nothing at the address but reports later suggested that two men, one of whom later blew himself up in the Maalbeek metro station, may have stayed there or used it.
The brothers behind the recent Brussels bombings supplied arms for the November terror attacks in Paris, according to Isis.
On March 22, 32 people were killed in attacks on the Brussels global airport and the city’s Maelbeek underground station.
Investigators have uncovered extensive links between the Paris and Brussels attacks, with numerous same people involved and linked to Islamic State in Syria which claimed both attacks.
He told a court that airport bomber Ibrahim el Bakraoui had selected the check-in areas for flights to the Jewish state, U.S. and Russian Federation as targets. El Bakraoui and Krayem left the Etterbeek location on the day of the assaults, he said.
“These two brothers gathered the weapons and the explosives”, the article says. “He exchanged fire with the Belgian and French forces for several hours, injuring a number of them”.
Most of the people who have been charged in Belgium are in detention, and those who have been released are subject to conditions such as daily checks with the police.
The bombers who attacked Brussels had meant to stage a terror attack in France before urgently switching their plans, prosecutors have said. The magazine said he was wounded in fighting in Syria and, while recovering, “began to train in order to realize his dream of returning to Europe to avenge the Muslims of Iraq and Sham [a region including Syria] for the constant bombing of crusader warplanes”. A representative of the Belgian federal prosecutor did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Three days of attacks left 17 dead.
Abrini was arrested in the Brussels neighborhood of Anderlecht on Friday and, according to prosecutors, said he was the mystery “man in the hat” seen in surveillance footage next to the two bombers at the airport.
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Separately Wednesday, the management of the concert hall targeted in the Paris attacks said it is preparing to reopen and has scheduled a set of new concerts toward the end of the year.
