Brussels police detain two after raids linked to Paris attacks

During the Sunday raid, police searched a house in the center of Brussels and detained two brothers and a friend of the two brothers for questioning, the office said in a statement.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian authorities questioned and released five people, including two brothers, who were detained after searches related to the Paris attacks, prosecutors said Monday.

All three are from the gritty Brussels suburb of Molenbeek. Both men were to be taken to a judge Monday, to decide if they could be held for longer, Reuters reported.

Authorities had already missed one chance to capture Abdeslam, who was driving toward the Belgian border when police stopped and questioned him a few hours after the attacks.

At the first checkpoint, Attou and Amri were asked by police if they had “consumed” any substances.

Detectives now believe he has absconded back to Syria to rejoin Islamic State, with other reports say he is in Morocco.

According to the driver, the officer said that their drug use “was not good, but it was not the priority today”, presumably in reference to the terror attacks.

YVES HERMAN/REUTERS Belgian cops arrest 5 people after raids associated to the Paris terror assaults.

He lived there while his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen apparently desperately searched for a more secure police for him to hide.

NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/AFP/Getty Images Belgium has so far arrested 11 people on suspicion of being involved in Paris attacks. Police said no guns or explosives were found in either case.

The raid lasted five hours in a building in the outskirts of Molenbeek area, just about a mile from Brussels’ central Grand Place square, a popular tourist area, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).