Paris attacks: 5 arrested in Belgium

Belgian police said they had released five people they arrested on Sunday and Monday in Brussels, including two brothers, in a series of raids in connection with last month’s Paris attacks. Two more people were taken into custody in another search on December 21 in the north of the city.

Police in Belgium arrested five people after two raids in connection to deadly attacks in Paris.

A worldwide search is underway for key suspect Salah Abdeslam, 26, who is thought to have been the driver of a black Renault Clio that dropped off three suicide bombers near the Stade de France the night of November 13. On Sunday evening, another Brussels house was searched on orders from an investigating judge specializing in terrorism. “Police said no guns or explosives were found at either location”.

He says the attack happened at around 1.30 p.m. local time in the vicinity of the base, which is the biggest US military facility in Afghanistan.

Confirming a report in the French daily Le Parisien, the source quoted Hamza Attou, suspected along with Mohammed Amri of driving Abdeslam to Brussels the day after the coordinated November 13 attacks in which 130 people died.

The investigators are looking to arrest the man who was in possession of these phones and would have been involved in coordinating the attacks.

Belgium has so far arrested eight people on suspicion of involvement in the terror assaults, which have been claimed by the Islamic State jihadist roup.

The building of interest is located between the center of the Belgian capital and the Molenbeek district where some of the perpetrators of the attacks, included suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, had lived.