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| Belgian Police Name Man Suspected of Being Salah Abdeslam’s Accomplice | Belgian Police Name Man Suspected of Being Salah Abdeslam’s Accomplice |
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| PARIS — The Belgian authorities on Monday identified a man suspected of being an accomplice of Salah Abdeslam, who was captured on Friday and charged with terrorist murder in the Paris attacks of Nov. 13, and they asked for the public’s help in finding him. | PARIS — The Belgian authorities on Monday identified a man suspected of being an accomplice of Salah Abdeslam, who was captured on Friday and charged with terrorist murder in the Paris attacks of Nov. 13, and they asked for the public’s help in finding him. |
| The man was identified as Najim Laachraoui, 24, who went to Syria in February 2013, according to a statement from the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office. | The man was identified as Najim Laachraoui, 24, who went to Syria in February 2013, according to a statement from the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office. |
| Mr. Laachraoui, going by the name Soufiane Kayal, was one of two men using fake Belgian identity cards who were with Mr. Abdeslam in a Mercedes on Sept. 9 as they passed through a checkpoint between Hungary and Austria. | Mr. Laachraoui, going by the name Soufiane Kayal, was one of two men using fake Belgian identity cards who were with Mr. Abdeslam in a Mercedes on Sept. 9 as they passed through a checkpoint between Hungary and Austria. |
| Twice that month, Mr. Abdeslam traveled to the Hungarian capital, Budapest, using a rental car. | Twice that month, Mr. Abdeslam traveled to the Hungarian capital, Budapest, using a rental car. |
| A man using the fake identity of Soufiane Kayal later rented a house in the town of Auvelais, about 30 miles south of Brussels, that was searched on Nov. 26. | A man using the fake identity of Soufiane Kayal later rented a house in the town of Auvelais, about 30 miles south of Brussels, that was searched on Nov. 26. |
| The authorities found Mr. Laachraoui’s DNA at the house in Auvelais and also at a house on Rue Henri Bergé, in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels, that was searched on Dec. 10. In the property on Rue Henri Bergé, investigators found traces of TATP, which has become the signature explosive for Islamic State operations in Europe, can be made with common household products and was an ingredient in the suicide vests used in the Paris assaults. | The authorities found Mr. Laachraoui’s DNA at the house in Auvelais and also at a house on Rue Henri Bergé, in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels, that was searched on Dec. 10. In the property on Rue Henri Bergé, investigators found traces of TATP, which has become the signature explosive for Islamic State operations in Europe, can be made with common household products and was an ingredient in the suicide vests used in the Paris assaults. |
| The attacks on Nov. 13 killed 130 people and wounded more than 400. | The attacks on Nov. 13 killed 130 people and wounded more than 400. |
| Mr. Abdeslam’s fingerprints were found at the house on Rue Henri Bergé — one of several tantalizing but frustrating clues that turned up during the four-month hunt for him that ended on Friday. | Mr. Abdeslam’s fingerprints were found at the house on Rue Henri Bergé — one of several tantalizing but frustrating clues that turned up during the four-month hunt for him that ended on Friday. |
| Along with Mr. Laachraoui, the authorities are also searching for Mohamed Abrini, 31, who was recorded by a surveillance video camera with Mr. Abdeslam two days before the Paris attacks — at around 7 p.m. on Nov. 11 — at a gas station in Ressons-sur-Matz, France, on the highway to Paris. | |
| Mr. Laachraoui appears to have studied electromechanical engineering at a Catholic high school in Schaerbeek, the Institut de la Sainte-Famille d’Helmet, graduating in 2012, according to an alumni newsletter. A school official said the school was looking into the matter. | Mr. Laachraoui appears to have studied electromechanical engineering at a Catholic high school in Schaerbeek, the Institut de la Sainte-Famille d’Helmet, graduating in 2012, according to an alumni newsletter. A school official said the school was looking into the matter. |