BRUSSELS – The top suspect in last year’s Paris attacks told investigators after he was captured that he was planning new operations from Brussels and possibly had access to several weapons, Belgium’s foreign minister said Sunday.
BRUSSELS — As the net closed in around Salah Abdeslam, Europe’s No. 1 fugitive was holed up, apparently anonymous, in an apartment in the place he knows best, the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, a locale favored by several of the Paris attackers.
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been shot and wounded in an ongoing raid in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, according to Belgian media reports.
Explosions and gunshots have been heard n the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek.
At the height of Europe’s vacation season, a young man with French and Belgian IDs caught a ferry from southern Italy to Greece.
Suspected Paris shooter and ISIS terrorist Salah Abdeslam is believed to have fled to Syria, a French intelligence source close to the case told CNN Monday.
The trail of the world’s most-wanted man was getting colder Monday after a flurry of raids in Brussels and an international dragnet led to nearly two dozen arrests and even more rumors, but no sign of Salah Abdeslam.