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| Ninth Person Is Detained in Belgium Over Paris Attacks | |
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| LONDON — More than a month after the Paris terrorist attacks, the investigation into the extensive involvement of Belgians in the plot widened on Thursday with the arrest of a 30-year-old man on murder and terrorism charges. | |
| A Belgian, identified only as Abdoullah C., was arrested on Tuesday just outside the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, where many of the people involved in the attacks lived or had ties. However, the authorities did not announce his detention at the time so as to avoid tipping off possible accomplices, officials said. | |
| An investigative judge issued an arrest warrant for Abdoullah C. “for terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization,” according to the federal prosecutor’s office in Brussels. | An investigative judge issued an arrest warrant for Abdoullah C. “for terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization,” according to the federal prosecutor’s office in Brussels. |
| Abdoullah C. is the ninth man detained so far by the Belgian authorities in connection with the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people. | |
| A global manhunt continues for Salah Abdeslam, 26, a Belgian-born Frenchman who is believed to be the only direct participant in the attack who is still alive, and Mohamed Abrini, 30, who was caught on video driving with Mr. Abdeslam two days before the attacks. | |
| Abdoullah C. is “suspected to have had several contacts” with Hasna Aitboulahcen, a 26-year-old cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, the Belgian believed to have been the chief planner of the attacks, according to the prosecutor’s office. | Abdoullah C. is “suspected to have had several contacts” with Hasna Aitboulahcen, a 26-year-old cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, the Belgian believed to have been the chief planner of the attacks, according to the prosecutor’s office. |
| Ms. Aitboulahcen, Mr. Abaaoud and another man were killed on Nov. 18, when French special police units stormed an apartment in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis, not far from the stadium where three attackers blew themselves up on Nov. 13. | Ms. Aitboulahcen, Mr. Abaaoud and another man were killed on Nov. 18, when French special police units stormed an apartment in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis, not far from the stadium where three attackers blew themselves up on Nov. 13. |
| Abdoullah C. had contacts with Ms. Aitboulahcen “between the terrorist attacks and the events in St.-Denis,” the prosecutor’s office said. | Abdoullah C. had contacts with Ms. Aitboulahcen “between the terrorist attacks and the events in St.-Denis,” the prosecutor’s office said. |
| A pretrial hearing was to be held on Thursday to decide whether to continue Abdoullah C.’s detention, but his lawyers told Belgian news outlets that they needed more time to prepare. | |
| The other eight people detained in Belgium are: | |
| ¶ Mohamed Amri and Hamza Attou, who are accused of being Mr. Abdeslam’s getaway drivers; | |
| ¶ Abraimi Lazez and Ali Oulkadi, accused of helping Mr. Abdeslam after the attacks; | |
| ¶ Abdellah Chouaa, who according to the French newsmagazine Le Point is the son of a well-known radical preacher in Brussels and who is suspected of being an associate of Mr. Abdeslam’s; | |
| ¶ Mohamed Bakkali, who lived at a house in the Belgian town of Auvelais that may have been used as a hide-out; | |
| ¶ Two men, identified only as Samir Z. and Pierre N., who are believed to have been friends of Bilal Hadfi, one of the attackers. |