Paris attacks suspects `hideout found` in Brussels

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BBC Online :Belgian prosecutors believe they may have found a Brussels apartment where one of the Paris jihadists hid after the 13 November attacks.Police found traces of explosives and a fingerprint of fugitive Salah Abdeslam in an apartment in the Schaerbeek district.The apartment had been rented in a false name, that might have been used by a person already in custody.Islamic State (IS) suicide attackers killed 130 people in the attacks.The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said that traces of the explosive TATP (acetone peroxide) and three handmade belts that might be used to transport explosives were found in the raid on 10 December in Rue Berge.Police are still searching for Abdeslam, 26. They believe he took part in the attacks before contacting friends in Belgium to drive him back over the border to Brussels. A French national, he was born in Brussels.Just hours after the attacks French police pulled over his VW Golf car near Belgium, but then let him travel on in the car with two others.He is believed to have rented a VW Polo car in Belgium, which was later found near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where 89 people were killed. But he also rented a Renault Clio and reserved two hotel rooms outside Paris before the attacks.His precise role in the attacks themselves is unclear, although his brother Brahim blew himself up. Salah Abdeslam is thought to have played a logistical role.

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