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WORLD NEWSFriday 1 April 2016

Prime Paris attack suspect can be sent to France Greek lawmakers
set to OK refugee

RAF CASERT 32 people. ing and transporting arms ment have given their ap- deportations: AP
Associated Press
In Paris, an official at the and explosives, and hold- provals to a reopening fol-

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Paris prosecutor office said ing fake documents. lowing testing on Tuesday, D. GATOPOULOS
authorities agreed on Thur- that Abdeslam, once trans- Paris prosecutor Francois one week after the suicide E. BECATOROS
day that Salah Abdeslam, ferred, will be immediately Molins said Kriket is believed bombings. Associated Press
a prime suspect in the Nov. questioned by an anti-ter- to have traveled to Syria in Operating company Brus- ATHENS, Greece (AP) —
13 Paris attacks, can be ex- rorist investigating judge 2014 and 2015 and made sels Airport said in a state- Lawmakers in Greece were
tradited to France where ready to support legislation
he has promised to coop- Police and a soldier secure an area outside an abandoned hotel while a wooded area around to deport refugees back to
erate in the investigation the hotel is searched, in Marke, Belgium, Thursday, March 31, 2016. Authorities are searching a Turkey as clashes between
into the attacks that killed wooded, residential area close to the French border amid reports that the action is linked to the migrants persisted Thurs-
130 people. recent arrest of a man in Paris suspected of planning an attack. day at overcrowded de-
After his four-month flight tention camps.
from the law ended on (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) A three-hour fight broke
March 18, Abdeslam of- out overnight between
ficially confirmed that he groups of migrants camp-
will not fight his transfer ing out in Greece’s main
back to Paris. “The transfer port of Piraeus, leaving
is authorized,” a statement eight people injured and
from the state prosecutor’s requiring treatment at
office said. Abdeslam’s nearby hospitals.
lawyer, Cedric Moisse, said The clashes, believed to
that is client “would like to have been between Af-
cooperate with the French ghan and Syrian migrants,
authorities. This is his will and left the area strewn with
this is the word he wants ev- rocks and broken glass.
erybody to hear.” New protests were also re-
Abdeslam is accused of ported at detention camps
helping to plan and exe- on the Greek islands of Les-
cute the attacks in Paris on bos and Chios, from where
Nov. 13 that killed 130 peo- deportations to Turkey are
ple. After crossing back into due to start next week.
Belgium the day after the More than 50,000 refugees
attacks, he was Europe’s and migrants have been
No. 1 fugitive until Belgian stranded in Greece after
authorities caught him, four

days ahead of the Brussels and imprisoned. several trips between ment Thursday that the air- Balkan countries closed

attacks. Over a week after the France and Belgium. port is “technically ready their borders to the mas-

Belgian and French author- March 22 attacks, soldiers At least three other people for a restart of passenger sive flow of refugees pour-

ities will now liaise on when searched a wooded and are in custody in the case flights in the temporary in- ing into Europe.

and how the transfer could residential area close to in Belgium and the Nether- frastructure foreseen for Some 11,500 remain

happen, which was unlikely the French border. Federal lands. check-in.” camped out at the border

to be pushed through im- prosecutors said the action Brussels airport authorities Flights will resume once po- with Macedonia, ignoring
mediately. is linked to the recent ar- say they are ready to re- litical approval to reopen instructions from the gov-
It was unclear to what ex- rest in Paris of Reda Kriket, sume flights from the bomb- is granted, but not before ernment to move to orga-
tent or whether Abdeslam who is accused of partici- damaged facility soon but Friday evening. Due to the nized shelters.
would be needed in the in- pating in a terrorist group not before the weekend. damage, the airport will be Hundreds of those camp-
vestigation of the March 22 with plans for at least one Belgium’s civil aviation au- able to run only at 20 per- ing out in Piraeus were
Brussels attacks which killed imminent attack, possess- thority and the fire depart- cent of normal capacity. q boarding buses Thursday

for newly-created refu-

Experts approve Kosovo-Montenegro border deal gee camps elsewhere in
Greece.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — nical point of view the in- ment’s work and its sup- negro,” a statement said. Government officials de-

Kosovo’s outgoing presi- ternational experts have porters have clashed with Prime Minister Isa Mustafa’s scribed the violence as mi-

dent, Atifete Jahjaga, found no violation of the police. They also oppose government hailed the ex- nor.

said Thursday international demarcation process be- a deal with Serbia giving perts’ findings, saying they “In situations where there is
experts have concluded tween Kosovo and Monte- more powers to ethnic were in line with previous so much tension and peo-
that a border demarcation negro,” Jahjaga said. She Serbs in Kosovo. findings of the U.S. Depart- ple have been through an
deal with Montenegro is in added, however, that the The opposition, which is ment of State and should ordeal, it is not surprising
line with international stan- experts considered the pro- now boycotting Parlia- settle the issue. to have minor incidents,
dards. cess needed to be “more ment, on Thursday did not The U.S. embassy in Pristina which are usually resolved
Three experts from the U.S., transparent.” accept the experts’ con- also welcomed the conclu- quickly,” Giorgos Kyritsis, a
Britain and Germany con- Jahjaga created the ad clusion and said it will con- sion of the ad hoc commis- spokesman for a refugee
sidered as regular the pro- hoc commission as part of tinue the anti-government sion and urged Kosovo and crisis committee, told pri-
cess of establishing the bor- attempts to lay the basis of protests. Montenegro “to take steps
der with neighboring Mon- a political dialogue in the “The united opposition to improve border man- vate Skai television.
tenegro. That has been country, efforts that have considers that the findings agement and strengthen
harshly opposed by the always been turned down of this international team cooperation.” In Athens, the government
country’s political opposi- by the opposition. ... are an evaluation made Kosovo declared inde-
tion, which claims Kosovo Kosovo’s political life has for the President’s needs pendence from Serbia in submitted draft legisla-
is losing thousands of hect- been in turmoil since last and as such cannot be re- 2008, an act that Serbia still
ares of land. September as the opposi- flected in the need of bor- rejects.q tion required for the land-
“From the legal and tech- tion has disrupted Parlia- der correction with Monte- mark migration agreement
reached this month by the
European Union and Tur-
key to take full effect. q