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Belgian prosecutors: Detention extended for Abrini, 5 others Judge orders Abrini, 6 other suspects held for another month
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BRUSSELS — Belgian prosecutors say a judge has ordered Mohamed Abrini and five others arrested in connection with the attacks in Paris and Brussels to be held for another month. BRUSSELS — A Belgian judge on Thursday ordered Mohamed Abrini and six other suspects arrested in connection with the attacks in Paris and Brussels kept behind bars for another month, prosecutors said.
Abrini has admitted being the “man in the hat” seen leaving Brussels Airport the morning two suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden suitcases there, killing 16. Abrini has admitted being the “man in the hat” seen leaving Brussels Airport the morning of March 22, when two suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden suitcases there, killing 16.
Sixteen other people died that morning when another bomber blew himself up on a Brussels subway train. Sixteen other people died that same morning when another bomber blew himself up on a Brussels subway train.
France’s BFM television reported Abrini claimed to investigators he “wouldn’t hurt a fly.” The Belgian Federal Prosecutors Office said Osama Krayem, a Swedish national suspected of being the accomplice of the Brussels subway bomber, was also ordered kept in preventive detention for another month, prosecutors said.
Abrini also had close ties to the attackers who killed 130 victims on Nov. 13 in Paris and is believed to have traveled to Syria and to have met with suspected extremists in England. The others included four suspects charged in the Brussels attacks, and one man accused of helping key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdemslam escape from France to Belgium.
Belgian and French authorities have detained dozens of suspect in their investigations. Abrini, who was arrested in Belgium last week, also had close ties to the attackers who killed 130 victims on Nov. 13 in Paris, and is believed to have traveled to Syria and to have met with suspected Muslim extremists in England.
France’s BFM television reported Abrini has claimed to investigators he “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
Belgian and French authorities have detained dozens of suspects in their investigations of the attacks, which were claimed by Islamic State group extremists.
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