Paris attacks fugitive's fingerprints found after raid: prosecutor
Belgian prosecutors say that police found fingerprints of fugitive Salah Abdeslam in a Brussels apartment that they raided earlier in the week in the Forest district of Brussels. Abdeslam is the main suspect in the attacks in Paris on 13 November last year, in which 130 people were killed.
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A spokesman for federal prosecutors, speaking to French news agency AFP on Friday, said, "We can confirm that fingerprints of Salah Abdeslam were found in the apartment in (the Brussels district of) Forest."
Belgium's RTBF television said that it was "more than likely" that Abdeslam was one of two suspects who fled the apartment after this week's anti-terror raid. So far, however, Belgian authorities have not confirmed the news.
An Algerian national with suspected ties to the Islamic State armed group was killed during Tuesday night's firefight which erupted after Belgian and French police searched a property in connection with the 13 November attacks.
The officers visited the apartment believing it was rented under the same false identity as a hideout in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi used by the Paris attackers.
Abdeslam, 26, who is believed to have played a key logistical role in the attacks, fled across the border to Belgium hours after the 13 November killings and is now one of the most wanted men in Europe.
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