Paris fugitive’s fingerprint found in Brussels flat
Belgian police said Friday that they have found a fingerprint of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam at a flat in Brussels.
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“During a house search conducted in an apartment in the Schaerbeek area, materials that can be used to build explosives were found,” Belgian prosecutors said in a statement.
“The apartment was rented under a false identity (…). Three handmade belts that might be used to transport explosives, traces of explosives as well as a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam were also discovered,” they added.
Prosecutors said that Abdeslam could have hidden in the flat after the Paris attacks on 13 November and that the explosive devices used in the Paris attacks could have been made there.
“We found the fingerprint but we have no idea when it was left. Maybe he went there to get his belt before the attacks and maybe he went back afterwards,” they said.
Police have been hunting for Abdeslam since the Paris attacks on 13 November.
Abdeslam is thought to have been driven by friends from Paris to Brussels after the attacks, while one suspect said he later took him to Schaerbeek on 14 November.
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