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Paris attackers linked in Morocco arrest Paris attackers linked in Morocco arrest
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Morocco says it has arrested a Belgian national linked to the men who carried out the Paris attacks, in which 130 people died. Morocco says it has arrested a Belgian of Moroccan descent with direct links to the Islamist gunmen and bombers who carried out the Paris attacks.
The man who has been detained is of Moroccan origin and had fought in Syria with al-Nusra front before joining so-called Islamic State, Morocco said. The man was detained near Casablanca on Friday, the interior ministry said, and had travelled from Syria via Turkey, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The Paris attacks are believed to have been at least partly planned in Brussels. He had fought in Syria with al-Nusra front before joining so-called Islamic State, Morocco said.
Belgian police have arrested several people as part of their investigation. The Paris attacks of 13 November killed 130 people.
They are believed to have been at least partly planned in Brussels, and Belgian police have arrested several people as part of their investigation.
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The suspect was arrested on Friday in the town of Mohammedia, near Casablanca, the Moroccan interior ministry said in a statement. The Moroccan interior ministry's statement did not name the suspect, but gave his initials in Arabic, which could be translated as either GA or JA.
The statement did not name the suspect, but gave his initials in Arabic, which could be translated as either GA or JA. The statement said the man had travelled to Syria "with one of the suicide bombers of Saint-Denis".
French police raided a flat in the Saint-Denis district of Paris five days after the attacks, searching for the suspected ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national. He and his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen died in a fierce gun battle during the raid.
A third person who died during the raid, detonating a suicide bomb, was named by the Paris prosecutor's office last week as Chakib Akrouh, a Belgian-Moroccan national, born in Belgium in 1990. He was identified using DNA from his mother.
Both Akrouh and Abaaoud had spent time in Syria.