A man believed to be involved in the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 has been captured in a raid in Brussels according to authorities. Salah Abdeslam, 26, is believed to have driven the car that carried a team of terrorists to the French national soccer stadium outside of Paris. Abdeslam’s brother Ibrahim blew himself up as a member of a separate team of attackers.

Salah Abdeslam is suspected of throwing his suicide vest in the trash after the attacks and then fleeing. In the hours after the attacks in Paris, and before his identity was widely known, Mr. Abdeslam was overlooked by the French authorities as he returned to Belgium by car.

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Salah Abdeslam, a man involved in the Paris terrorist attacks, has been captured during a raid in Brussels. Reports have surfaced that Abdeslam was injured during the raid. Heavily armed phalanx of police officers began about an hour after Belgian prosecutors announced that they had found Mr. Abdeslam’s fingerprint in an apartment that was raided on Tuesday. The pollice were searching for additional suspects which continued into the evening and residents in Brussels reported hearing gunshots at explosions.

Ten men who were believed to have participated in the Paris attacks directly all died in their attacks and MrAbdeslam was the only one at large until today.

Abdeslam’s capture could give the authorities an opportunity to interrogate him about the planning for the attack and the procedures used by the Islamic State in plotting and carrying out attacks in Europe.

Salah Abdeslam had several brushes with the law, mainly for minor offenses. A week before the attacks, Belgian authorities shut down the nightclub that Abdeslam because he suspected of selling drugs. In September, Salah Abdeslam drove to Budapest, where he picked up two men who returned with him to Belgium with fake identity cards.

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Source: The Guardian | Washington Post