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Belgium hands suspected author of multiple terror attacks to France

Xinhua,January 27, 2018 Adjust font size:

BRUSSELS, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Mohamed Bakkali, a suspect of the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, which left 130 dead and hundreds more wounded, was handed over by Belgium to the French judicial authorities, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office announced here on Friday.

"Mohamed B. was handed over today to the French judicial authorities as part of this investigation, and his role in a failed attack on a Thalys Amsterdam-Paris train on Aug. 21, 2015," read the statement.

Bakkali was arrested in Brussels on Nov. 26, 2015, 13 days after the Paris attacks.

He is also suspected of having rented the hideout on Henri Berge Street in Schaerbeek (Brussels), where the explosive belts used in the Nov. 13 attacks were made, and of having spied on a person in charge of a nuclear research center in Belgium, according to Belga news agency. Enditem

 

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