Paris terror attack suspected
ringleader Salah Abdeslam was arrested Friday after being shot
and wounded in the leg in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek,
local and international media said.
He was said to have been arrested with a wounded accomplice
in an apartment.
Another gunman was said to be holed up in another apartment
on the same street.
Abdeslam was one of two people who evaded arrest during a
shootout at an apartment in the Brussels suburb of Forest
Tuesday.
One Islamist gunman was reportedly shot dead by a police
sniper at the scene.
Fingerprints and DNA belonging to the fugitive, who has been
on the run since the 13 November attacks that killed 130 people,
were reportedly discovered by Belgian officers during Tuesday's
raid.
Belgian prosecutors on Friday confirmed his fingerprints
were found at the apartment in the Forest area of the city.
The 26-year-old Brussels-born Frenchman is believed to have
played a key logistical role in the attacks on the French
capital. His older brother Brahim was a suicide bomber.
According to some reports, the Islamic State (ISIS) Islamist
militant group is angry with the younger Abdeslam because he did
not go through with the plan to blow himself up, as his brother
did.
Salah Abdeslam was driven back to Brussels from Paris hours
later by two friends - Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou.
The three men were stopped near the border by French police
but then released, as Abdeslam had not yet been connected to the
attacks.
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