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Captured
Police officers secure a street during a raid in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium, Friday March 18, 2016. After an intense four-month manhunt
across Europe and beyond, police on Friday captured Salah Abdeslam, the top fugitive in the Paris attacks in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up.
(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Top Paris Attacks Fugitive Nabbed in Brussels Raid
RAF CASERT tacks in the same Brussels Salah Abdeslam, 26, is a detonators. He may have believed to have slipped
JOHN DAHLBURG neighborhood where he childhood friend of the sus- been planning a suicide at- through police fingers mul-
Associated Press grew up. pected ringleader of the tack himself. tiple times. At one point,
BRUSSELS (AP) — Police Hours later, the French attacks. After the bloodbath, he Belgian authorities locked
raiding an apartment build- president said more peo- Investigators believe he slipped through a dragnet down their capital for sev-
ing captured Europe’s most ple were involved in the at- drove a car carrying a to return to Brussels and eral days but failed to find
wanted fugitive Friday, ar- tacks than initially thought, group of gunmen who took eluded capture for four him.
resting the prime suspect in and predicted more arrests part in the shootings, rent- months, despite an inter-
last year’s deadly Paris at- would follow. ed rooms and shopped for national manhunt. He was Continued on Page 2
