Official says Belgium has arrested 2 more suspects in connection with the
Hadfi, on the other hand, was said to have blown himself up in a street after failing to get into the Stade de France, where a football game between France and Germany was being played.
Samir Z. was also suspected of attempting to leave for Syria twice this year, Van der Sypt’s statement added.
They have appeared before a court, which has extended their detention.
A second man, identified as Pierre N., was apprehended during a raid in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, an area with ties to several suspects linked to the Paris massacre.
The arrests take the number of people detained in Belgium in relation to the Paris attacks to eight. Some of the attackers had lived in Belgium.
Salah Abdeslam, a fugitive suspected in the deadly attacks in Paris, was at the main Budapest train station before mid-September and left with men who had been traveling amid a wave of asylum-seekers trying to enter Europe, Hungarian officials said Thursday.
Rescue workers gather at victims in the 10th district of Paris, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015.
Police in Belgium have made two further arrests in connection with last month’s attacks in Paris.
In Belgium, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office yesterday confirmed reports that the two new suspects in the Paris attacks had been arrested on Sunday.
He was reportedly held for questioning at Zaventem airport, northwest of Brussels, as he was about to fly to Morocco.
A 28-year-old Belgian man was detained at an address in the neighbourhood of Molenbeek in Brussels.
Attackers armed with automatic rifles and suicide belts killed 130 people at a number of sites across the French capital.