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Paris Attacks: Fingerprints of Suspect Found in Raided Belgian Apartment

© AFP 2023 / EMMANUEL DUNAND This file photo shows Belgian policemen and a serviceman secure an area during a press conference by the Belgian prime minister concerning the country's security alert level in Brussels on November 22, 2015.
This file photo shows Belgian policemen and a serviceman secure an area during a press conference by the Belgian prime minister concerning the country's security alert level in Brussels on November 22, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Fingerprints belonging to fugitive Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam were found in an apartment raided by Belgian security forces earlier this week, the federal prosecution said Friday.

Forensic police search for evidences outside the La Belle Equipe cafe, rue de Charonne, at the site of an attack on November 14, 2015 in Paris, after a series of gun attacks occurred across the city. More than 100 people were killed in a mass hostage-taking at a Paris concert hall and many more were feared dead in a series of bombings and shootings, as France declared a national state of emergency - Sputnik International
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — Tuesday’s raid in a Brussels neighborhood of Forest ended in a shootout between anti-terror forces and a gunman who was shot down by a sniper. The shooter was later identified as Mohamed Belkaid, an Algerian who had entered the country illegally.

Two other suspects fled the apartment. According to information obtained by Belgian broadcaster RTBF, Salah Abdeslam could have been one of the run-aways.

© REUTERS / Police Nationale/Handout Handout picture shows Belgian-born Abdeslam Salah seen on a call for witnesses notice released by the French Police Nationale information services on their twitter account, November 15, 2015.
Handout picture shows Belgian-born Abdeslam Salah seen on a call for witnesses notice released by the French Police Nationale information services on their twitter account, November 15, 2015. - Sputnik International
Handout picture shows Belgian-born Abdeslam Salah seen on a call for witnesses notice released by the French Police Nationale information services on their twitter account, November 15, 2015.

Abdeslam has been at large following a string of near-simultaneous terror attacks in the French capital on November 13. The man reportedly had second thoughts about blowing up his suicide belt and fled Paris together with two accomplices.

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