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| Brussels bomber Mohamed Abrini charged over Paris attacks, say French lawyers | Brussels bomber Mohamed Abrini charged over Paris attacks, say French lawyers |
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| Mohamed Abrini, who was behind the attack at Brussels airport last year, has been charged in France over the Paris attacks in 2015 according to his lawyers. | |
| Abrini was handed over to French authorities by Belgium for questioning about the Paris attacks that left 130 dead, Belgian federal prosecutors said earlier in a statement. | Abrini was handed over to French authorities by Belgium for questioning about the Paris attacks that left 130 dead, Belgian federal prosecutors said earlier in a statement. |
| Abrini was captured in Brussels in April over his suspected involvement in the 22 March Brussels attacks on the airport and on the metro which killed a total of 32 people, and the Paris killings, both of which were claimed by Isis. | |
| “In the framework of the investigation related to the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, Mohamed Abrini was surrendered to the French judicial authorities for a period of one day,” the prosecutor's office said in a statement. | “In the framework of the investigation related to the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, Mohamed Abrini was surrendered to the French judicial authorities for a period of one day,” the prosecutor's office said in a statement. |
| Abrini, dubbed the “man in the hat” from images caught on security cameras, fled the airport without detonating his suitcase bomb after his accomplices Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui set off theirs, killing 16 people and themselves. | Abrini, dubbed the “man in the hat” from images caught on security cameras, fled the airport without detonating his suitcase bomb after his accomplices Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui set off theirs, killing 16 people and themselves. |
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