‘Armed and dangerous’ Paris attacks suspects identified

Later, Kayal’s identity was used to rent a house in the Belgian town of Auvelais that authorities have searched as a possible site for making the suicide bombs used in the Paris attacks.

According to the witness statement, Abaaoud asked his cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen to hide him while he prepared more attacks following the multiple strikes November 13 throughout Paris that killed at least 130 and wounded hundreds.

Prosecutors said anyone who sees the men or has information about them should contact police.

The pair are “armed and dangerous” and are thought to have helped Abdeslam travel to Hungary in September. They were stopped at the Hungarian-Austrian border for checks.

A fake identity card belonging to among the two new defendants that were sought was used to transfer the cousin of strikes ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud cash, the prosecutor said.

Apart from the new suspects, police are still searching for Salah Abdeslam, who remains a key suspecte, as well as Mohamed Abrini, who is suspected of driving Abdeslam to Paris just before the attacks.

Authorities have been looking for suspect Salah Abdeslam for almost a month.

Also Friday, European Union interior ministers met in Luxembourg seeking to clinch a deal on sharing airline passenger information, which France says is a vital security tool for tracking extremists.

Samir Z., a French national born in 1995, had been detained at Brussels airport on Sunday as he was boarding a plane bound for Morocco, said the prosecutor.

Images provided by Belgian police in connection with the search for two new suspects in the Paris attacks.

(AP Photo/Christophe Ena). Men work on the shop front of the cafe “La bonne biere”, one of the establishments targeted during the November Paris attacks, in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015.

Another suspect is Lazez Abraimi, in whose auto police found two handguns and traces of blood.