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Police Probing Paris Attacks Find Suicide Vests in Brussels Flat
[AnNahar] Belgian police have found three belts for possible use in suicide kabooms, traces of explosives and a fingerprint of wanted Gay Paree attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam at a Brussels flat, prosecutors said Friday.Prosecutors said Abdeslam might have hidden in the flat after the November 13 attacks, but that they were also working on the theory that the bombs used in the massacre could have been made there. The discovery was made in December during a search of an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of the Belgian capital. It was rented by someone using a false name, possibly used by another suspect now in jug, they said. "In the framework of the investigation opened after the Gay Paree attacks the federal prosecutor confirms that during a house search conducted December 10th in an apartment on the third floor, Rue Bergé in Schaerbeek, material that can be used to fabricate explosives as well as traces of TATP were found," the prosecutor said. "This apartment was rented under a false identity that might have been used by a person already in jug in this case," the statement added. "Three handmade belts that might be used to transport explosives as well as a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam were also discovered." Police have been hunting for Belgian-born Abdeslam, 26, since jacket wallahs and assailants firing automatic weapons killed 130 people and maimed many more in a wave of attacks across Gay Paree. Investigators said friends drove Abdeslam from Gay Paree back to the Belgian capital, slipping through three police checks, while one suspect has since said that he drove Abdeslam across Brussels to Schaerbeek on November 14. Federal prosecutors front man Eric Van Der Sypt said however that it was not clear when Abdeslam visited the Brussels apartment. "We found the fingerprint but we have no idea when it was left -- a fingerprint has no date or time on it," Van Der Sypt told AFP. "Maybe he went there to get his belt (before the attacks), and maybe he went back afterwards. I suppose it's a possibility of both," he added. He would not comment on Belgian media reports that the flat had been cleaned and checked for fingerprints after the attacks, which would explain why only one of Abdeslam's prints was found. After the attacks, French authorities said that telephone data had placed Abdeslam in the area where an explosives belt was found in a dustbin in the Gay Paree suburb of Montrouge. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group grabbed credit for the coordinated series of attacks on bars, restaurants, and a concert hall, in which the attackers were armed with guns and suicide belts. Seven died during the assault but the total number of those directly involved is still unclear. One of them was Abdeslam's brother, Brahim. In early December, Belgian prosecutors said they were looking for two "armed and dangerous" men who used false ID papers to help Abdeslam travel to Hungary in September where he was stopped -- but then let go -- by police. Belgian authorities have tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and charged a total of 10 people in connection with the attacks, including several with helping Abdeslam. La Belle France has long said the attacks were prepared and organised in Belgium and that the criminal mastermind was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Brussels resident who was killed in a police raid in Gay Paree days after the massacre. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-09 |
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