9 years ago

Brussels attacks: who are the likely terror suspects behind the attack?

The only outstanding suspect from the Paris terror cell met with Islamist fanatics in Birmingham just four months before helping coordinate the French atrocity, it has emerged. Mohamed Abrini, 31, was in the West Midlands city in July last year raising concerns over British links with the Isil cell now behind attacks in both the French capital and Brussels. French intelligence sources on Wednesday confirmed that Mohamed Abrini travelled to the UK in July 2015 and "flew back to France from Birmingham". A Belgian of Moroccan origin he is one of the most wanted terror suspects and, amid reports that suspected bomb maker Najib Laachraoui blew himself up in the Brussels attacks, he is now the only cell member still at large.

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