Belgium holds two terrorism suspects after Paris attacks

Ibrahim blew himself up at the Comptoir Voltaire café near the Bataclan theatre where at least 89 people were killed during the Paris attacks on Friday.

Arriving for talks in Brussels with his European Union counterparts, Greek Defense Minister Panagiotis Kammenos told reporters that the Paris attacks were a game-changer for the bloc.

French media reported that during the raids police found a safe house used by the attackers in Bobigny, a suburb of Paris.

He could be one of two suspects being held in Belgium or on the run – possibly with 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, who carried out the shootings along with his suicide-bomber brother Brahim. “We knew he was in Syria”, Van Der Sypt said.

Police in the western German town of Alsdorf arrested seven people – five men and two women – Tuesday in connection with the Paris attacks after receiving a report of suspicious persons.

Mohamed Abdeslam, brother of Ibrahim Abdeslam, an attacker who died in the Paris assault, addresses the journalists during an investigation linked to the deadly attacks in Paris, in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek.

– Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud was named by a French official as the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks.

French President Francois Hollande said the attacks were “planned in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium and perpetrated on our soil with French complicity”.

French security has confirmed that surveillance video appears to show a ninth attacker during the 13 November attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and more than 400 injured.

“Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam knew each other and were involved in the same petty crimes”, the French source said.

The police followed a vehicle that had one of Abdeslam’s two brothers and they were directed to a neighbourhood in Molenbeek.

Another brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, was released without charge on Monday after he was detained at the weekend.

Authorities have yet to announce the capture of anyone suspected of direct involvement in the slaughter on Friday, though police have used emergency powers to conduct nearly 300 searches that have netted 127 arrests and 31 weapons. Three of his relatives have been arrested, prosecutors said yesterday.

“I was able to leave … despite being chased after by so many intelligence agencies”, he told the magazine, referring to his ability to get out of Belgium.

Abaaoud said he narrowly escaped from law enforcement, adding, “I was even stopped by an officer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance!”

On Sunday, French jets carried out a number of massive airstrikes on IS’ de-facto capital of Raqqa, Syria.

More than 130 Belgian nationals have traveled to Syria and returned to Belgium, Belgian authorities say, while others traveled to Syria and authorities aren’t sure whether they’ve returned to Belgium.