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Salah Abdeslam: Suspected Isis militant accused of involvement in Paris attacks handed over to French authorities Salah Abdeslam: Suspected Isis militant accused of involvement in Paris attacks handed over to French authorities
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Salah Abdeslam has been handed over to French authorities by Belgian investigators. Salah Abdeslam has been handed over to French authorities by Belgium as investigations into the Paris attacks continue.
A spokesperson for the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said the transfer was linked to the investigation into the attacks carried out by Isis militants in Paris on 13 November. A spokesperson for the Belgian federal prosecutor's office announced the transfer on Wednesday, saying it followed prosecutions for the massacres carried out by Isis militants on 13 November.
Abdeslam, who was arrested in Brussels last month after allegedly being involved in a shoot-out with police, was the subject of a European arrest warrant. He said a European Arrest Warrant issued by France had been executed, adding: “No further information will be given concerning the exact time or the circumstances of his transfer.”
More to follow. Abdeslam is believed to be the only surviving Isis militant from the massacres that killed 130 people, reportedly telling Belgian police he could not bring himself to blow himself up in his allotted mission at the Stade de France.
The 26-year-old, whose brother Brahim was among the suicide bombers, discarded his explosives vest and went on the run until he was caught hiding out in Brussels in March.
He has been charged with participation in “terrorist murder” in Paris and the attempted murder of police office during a gunfight at a hideout in Brussels.
An Isis militant, Mohamed Belkaid, 35, was shot dead by police during the shoot-out at a flat in Forest on 15 March.
Three days later, Abdeslam was traced to a flat in the suburb of Molenbeek and arrested alongside an suspected accomplice known under the aliases Amine Choukri and Monir Ahmed Alaaj.
His lawyer initially said his client, a French national who grew up in Belgium, would resist extradition to France but the move was agreed on 31 March.