Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to appear in Brussels court
The chief suspect in last year's deadly Paris terror attacks is due to appear in court in Brussels, amid increasing signs that the same cell of the so-called 'Islamic State' group was behind attacks in both cities.
Salah Abdeslam is scheduled to face magistrates on Thursday morning after his arrest last week in the same Brussels neighbourhood where he grew up.
France is seeking his extradition to face potential terrorism charges for his involvement in the November 13 attacks on a Paris rock concert, stadium and cafes, which killed 130 people.
Several attackers were also killed.
European security officials said one of the suicide bombers who attacked Brussels airport on Tuesday is a suspected bomb-maker for the Paris attackers.
A car accompanied by police left the prison in Bruges where Abdeslam has been held on Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, Belgian state broadcaster RTBF and France's Le Monde were reporting that a second attacker is suspected of taking part in Tuesday's bombing of a Brussels subway train and may be at large.
The media, citing unnamed sources, said today that the suspect was filmed by surveillance cameras in the Brussels metro on Tuesday carrying a large bag alongside Khalid El Bakraoui, whom prosecutors have identified as a suicide bomber. RTBF said it is not clear whether the second suspect was killed in the attack.
El Bakraoui's brother Brahim was identified as one of two suicide bombers who targeted the Belgian capital's Zaventem Airport the same day in attacks that killed at least 31 people and injured more than 200.
Prosecutors did not immediately respond to the reports.
