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| Swede arrested in Brussels 'brainwashed' by militants |
Abrini had been at ample aback the Brussels attacks, which dead 32 and afflicted hundreds added at the airport in Zaventem and a busline base abutting to the address of the European Union. Footage showed him calmly walking out of the airport and into the city, area he disappeared.
He was arrested Friday in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels, not far from the accommodation area he and his collaborators larboard for the airport on the morning of the attacks.
“After getting confronted with the after-effects of the altered able examinations, he accepted his attendance at the abomination scene,” the federal prosecutor said in a statement. “He explained accepting befuddled abroad his belong in a debris bin and accepting awash his hat afterwards.”
Abrini is aswell declared to accept been a cogent amateur in the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, which dead 130 and afflicted hundreds added in a alternation of shootings and suicide bombings at a stadium, concert anteroom and restaurants beyond the French capital.
According to European analytic files acquired by The Washington Post, Abrini alien adolescent terrorists aback and alternating beyond the French-Belgian bound in the canicule arch up to the attacks. He was apparent on camera with Brahim Abdeslam, who detonated a suicide bomb alfresco a Paris cafe, and with Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested in Brussels on March 18.
The abstracts aswell advance that Abrini apparently catholic from Europe to Syria and back, via Turkey, in the months afore the November attacks.
In accession to Abrini, suspects articular as Osama K., Herve B.M. and Bilal E.M. accept been answerable with “terrorist murder” and accommodating in the “activities of a agitator group,” the prosecutor’s appointment said Saturday.
Despite these arrests, Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon was quick to point out that added terrorists could still be at plan in the baby nation that has become a axis for abolitionist Islamist action in Europe.
“There are conceivably added beef that are still alive on our territory,” Jambon told Belgium’s RTL television arrangement on Saturday.
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