| More on this from yesterday. |
[IsraelTimes] Police raiding an apartment building captured Europe’s most wanted runaway Friday, arresting the prime suspect in last year’s deadly Gay Paree attacks in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up.
Salah Abdeslam, 26, is a childhood friend of the suspected ringleader of the attacks. Investigators believe he drove a car carrying a group of gunnies who took part in the shootings, rented rooms and shopped for detonators. He may have been planning a suicide kaboom himself.
After the bloodbath, he slipped through a dragnet to return to Brussels and eluded capture for four months, despite an international manhunt. He was believed to have slipped through police fingers multiple times. At one point, Belgian authorities locked down their capital for several days but failed to find him.g
| Update from The Times of Israel at 5:20 p.m. ET: Mr Abdeslam is cooperating with Belgian justice, according to his lawyer, though the poor dear had to answer the investigating magistrate's questions lying down because of his wounded leg. Two of those arrested yesterday have been released, which has been happening a lot throughout this investigation. |
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