Paris attacks: Key suspect Abrini arrested in Brussels

Abrini was captured on CCTV (R) at a service station at Ressons in northern France while driving a car with Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam

 

The key remaining suspect in November's Paris terror attacks, Mohamed Abrini, has been arrested in Belgium, prosecutors confirmed.

Investigators are checking if Abrini is also the "man in the hat", the third bomber in the Brussels airport attacks last month, who fled the scene.

The attacks on the airport and a metro station left 32 people dead.
Another suspect in those attacks, Osama K, was also detained on Friday, as were three other people.
They were claimed by the Islamic State militant group, which also said it was behind the gun and bomb attacks in Paris on 13 November that killed 130 people.
Abrini had not been directly linked to the Brussels attacks until now.
Belgian investigators confirmed at a press conference the arrest of Abrini along with that of two other suspects, whose names were not given.
According to prosecutors, Abrini's fingerprints and DNA were found in two "safe houses" in the Brussels district of Schaarbeek, as well as in a car used during the Paris attacks.
On Thursday, the authorities released new video footage of the "man in the hat", appealing for the public's help in finding him.
The individual in the footage was seen beside the two suicide bombers at Brussels airport. He left the scene shortly before the blasts.
Separately, Osama K and another man, named as Herve BM, were picked up on Friday morning in Brussels