Paris attacks suspect’s ‘bomb factory’ found in Brussels

Investigators believe they have uncovered a property used as a bomb factory hideout for the Paris attacks terrorists.

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s office said Friday that a raid on an apartment on December 10 led to the discovery of suicide belts and the fingerprints of attack fugitive Salah Abdeslam.

Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national, remains at large and is one of Europe’s most-wanted men.

Also found were traces of of the explosive acetone peroxide, as well as the handmade belts which “could have been intended for the transport of explosives”, according to prosecutors. “I suppose it’s a possibility of both”.

There was no sign of police activity on Thursday at the apartment block in the quiet Schaerbeek area, AFP journalists said. The Paris prosecutor, Francois Molins, said investigators are unsure of the man’s true identity.

He and his friends were stopped by a French gendarme near the border but let go, the New York Post reports. The same false identity of Soufiane Kayal was used to rent a property in the Belgian town of Auvelais that possibly served as a safe house.

They added that Salah Abdeslam’s fingerprints were found in the apartment on December 10th, however they did not say why they waited a month to announce it.

Inside was a fingerprint of Abdeslam, who has been on the run since the horrific attacks in November that left 130 dead.

All seven terrorists who died in the Paris attacks were wearing bomb belts.

Ali Oulkadi, one of the men in detention in Belgium, is suspected of having driven Abdeslam to Schaerbeek after Abdeslam’s return to Brussels.

Belgian media likewise said this week researchers also now consider that two guys commanded the November 13 assaults by sending SMS text messages through the evening from Belgium. Law enforcement has arrested 10 people suspected of being involved in the attacks, though Abdeslam has eluded capture.