Two new suspects charged in Belgium in Paris attacks case

The ringleader of the Paris terror attacks had links to people in the United Kingdom, it has emerged.

They said he was “considered to be part of the entourage of Bilal Hadfi”.

“These people used fake Belgian identity cards, of Samir Bouzid and Sufyan Kayala”, the prosecutor’s office said.

Prosecutors said Samir Z was “under the suspicion of having attempted to leave for Syria at least twice in 2015”.

He is suspected of driving a number of the suicide bombers to the Stade de France in a Renault Clio.

The second arrest took place at dawn on Sunday, when a 28 year old Belgian national listed as Pierre N, was detained in his home in Molenbeek.

Both faces charges relating to the Paris attacks and have been remanded in custody for a month. Both brothers grew up in the Molenbeek district of Brussels.

One of the 11 terrorists behind the attacks that left 130 dead and more than 350 people wounded in the French capital, also travelled to Birmingham and London earlier this year, according to a separate report in The Guardian, which The Independent was also unable to verify.

Abdeslam continues at large and was during the fatal attack maintained by the Islamic State group.

Two suspects were charged on Thursday, December 3 in relation to the Paris attacks, including a Frenchman reportedly held at Brussels airport as he tried to board a flight to Morocco. “Two other suspects have been charged…in the framework of the Paris attacks”, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office told AFP on Thursday, adding that they had been detained on Sunday. Investigators think Abdeslam played a key logistical role in the massacre.

They are also looking for Mohamed Abrini, who is…

“Anyone who sees those men is asked not to undertake any initiative and to contact immediately the police”, the Belgian law enforcement said, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

London’s Metropolitan Police, the lead service on counterterror issues in the United Kingdom, declined to comment.