Raids and arrest in Brussels in connection with Paris attacks


Several raids have taken place and one man has been arrested in Brussels in connection with last night's attacks in Paris.

It follows reports that three of the men who massacred over 100 people in Paris last night lived in the city's Molenbeek suburb.

According to Belgian broadcaster RTBF, local authorities have refused to confirm or deny the raids, but reporters have witnessed raids at three buildings.

The Federal Prosecutor's office will hold a press conference later it the day.

It comes after French media said officers wanted to trace a suspicious black car with Belgian plates that was seen near the Bataclan venue, where more than 80 people were killed.

Meanwhile, a police source in France has said one of the bombers was a young French man known for links with Islamic extremism.

The same source said that the gunman had been identified by his fingerprints.

French broadcaster BFMTV said that in addition to a Syrian passport found at the scene of a deadly stadium attack in the north of the city, an Egyptian passport was found close to the body of one of the assailants.

A Greek minister has said that the Syrian passport belonged to someone who had got into the EU via Greece in early October.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the multiple attacks across the capital - and has warned that France would remain at the "top of the list of targets" over its airstrikes on IS territory in Syria and Iraq.

It said in an online statement that eight militants armed with explosive belts and guns chose targets "in the capital of adultery and vice".

In Germany, officials have said a 51-year-old man arrested with weapons in his car last week may be linked to the Paris attacks.

Firearms, explosives and hand grenades were found in the vehicle near the German-Austrian border - but Bavarian state police would not confirm reports that the man appeared to be en route to Paris when he was held.

Source http://www.newstalk.com/reader/47.301/59281/0/

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