Police in Belgium claim they have caught "the man in the hat" from the the Zavantem Airport bombings in Brussels.
Mohamed Abrini, a 31-year Belgian-Moroccan who was arrested Friday in a dramatic curbside take-down in the Anderlech district of Brussels, has today confessed to his part in the bombings, according to the Belgian Prosecutor.
"The Federal Prosecutor’s Office can now confirm that Mohamed Abrini indeed is the third man present at the Brussels National Airport attacks," the Belgian prosecutor stated in a press release on Saturday.
"After being confronted with the results of the different expert examinations, he confessed his presence at the crime scene. He explained having thrown away his vest in a garbage bin and having sold his hat afterwards."
Abrini has been one of the world's most wanted list since November's terrorist attacks in Paris, which killed 130. He is believed to have been involved in "logistical support" for the attacks – although his role may ultimately prove to have been much deeper through his close ties to captured Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam.
"His digital prints with his DNA were identified in the safehouses in Rue Max Roos and Rue Henri Bergé in Schaarbeek’ and in a Renault Clio car used in the Paris attacks," Belgian spokesperson Thierry Werts confirmed to reporters Friday.
"He was also seen with Salah Abdeslam on the 11th of November towards 7 O'Clock in the garage in Ressons, France, on the motorway towards Paris.
"Moreover it has come out with regard to the inquiry with Paris that Salah Abdeslam and Abrini hired a room just before the attacks and in the flat that they rented there were a number of other suicide bombers who joined them just before the Paris attacks."
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