The Belgian police has found two apartments and a house used by suspects before they carried out the terror attacks in Paris, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The Belgian police has found two apartments and a house used by suspects before they carried out the terror attacks in Paris, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
“The investigators were able to identify three premises that have been used by the conspiring perpetrators of the attacks of 13th November 2015,” a spokesperson for federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said in a statement in English.
The premises included a flat in the city of Charleroi where investigators found fingerprints of suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and of Bilal Hadfi, who blew himself up outside the Stade de France on the night of the attacks.
Prosecutors also cited a flat in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek already identified on Friday, and a small house in the rural village of Auvelais, near the French border.
The Auvelais house was searched on November 26 and the Charleroi apartment on December 9, they said. No traces of explosives or weapons were found in either of those lodgings.
Meanwhile, France has banned three Islamic associations which ran a mosque in the Paris area shut down following November’s jihadist attacks on the capital, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Wednesday. The mosque at Lagny-sur-Marne was closed in early December as part of a security crackdown.
“There is no place in the French Republic for groups which... call for terrorism or call for hate,” Mr Cazeneuve said.
The government’s spokesperson Stephane Le Foll said after a Cabinet meeting: “The fight against preachers of hate will be total.”
