Paris Attack Suspect Captured, belgian Minister Says

The number one fugitive from the Paris attacks was caught in a Brussels raid on Friday, a Belgian minister said on Twitter.

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— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 18, 2016" “We got him” said Theo Francken, Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, on Twitter, refering to Salah Abdeslam, the 26-year-old French suspect from Brussels.
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— Theo Francken (@FranckenTheo) March 18, 2016" The Federal Prosecutor’s office has also confirmed his arrest, public broadcaster RTBF said.

Abdeslam’s elder brother was among the suicide bombers who killed themselves in Paris during a shooting rampage in which 130 people died. The younger Abdeslam’s elder brother was among the suicide bombers who killed themselves in Paris during a shooting rampage in which 130 people died. The younger Abdeslam was driven back to Brussels from Paris hours later.

Belgian authorities are holding 10 people suspected of involvement with him, but there has been no report of the fugitive himself being sighted.

Several exchanges of gun fire rang out in the city’s Molenbeek area – the scene of past investigations – and police officers were seen surrounding an apartment block there.

Television footage showed masked, black-clad security forces guarding a street.

Reporters at the scene described white smoke rising from a rooftop and a helicopter hovering overhead.
A police spokeswoman said an operation was ongoingand could not give further details.

Belgian police had found fingerprints belonging to Abdeslam at the scene of an apartment raided on Tuesday, prosecutors said earlier.