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Mohamed Abrini
According to a European police cooperative known as ENFAST, video showed Abrini with Abdeslam on November 11, two days before the massacre in the French capital.
The same Renault Clio that Abrini drove
was used in those attacks, ENFAST reports. Abdeslam told authorities he
drove a car of that same make and model to the Stade de France — where
suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a soccer game — and
abandoned it.
He then wandered into the subway and allegedly “contacted one person,” that being Abrini, CNN’s French affiliate BFMTV reported.
Abrini has a criminal record of violent theft. He also had
a younger brother killed while fighting for ISIS in 2014, and he was in
Istanbul, Turkey, briefly last summer and possibly in Syria.
Relatives have insisted Abrini was in Brussels the night of the Paris attacks.
More than four months later, Belgian
state broadcaster VRT reports Abrini was still in the Belgian capital —
playing a hands-on role in the terror attacks there.
As to Abrini, the 31-year-old Belgian-Moroccan had been among Europe’s most wanted and was considered “armed and dangerous.”
His arrest means that Belgian authorities now have at least two people, along with Salah Abdeslam, who have been directly tied to the November 13 attacks in Paris.
“For French investigators, this can be
very big,” said CNN’s Nic Robertson. “This gives you a much stronger
position to be in to get to the truth … to (track) other terrorists on
the run down,” Robertson said. “And also to understand precisely what
happened in Paris.”
But according to Peter Bergen, a leading
terrorism expert and CNN analyst, Abrini’s arrest also puts pressure on
Belgian authorities to find out information quickly.
A handout image released by the Belgian Federal Police on April 7, 2016, shows a suspect wanted in connection with the Brussels attacks of March 22 that killed 32 people.(Photo: Belgian Federal Police)
Days after Abdeslam was arrested,
terrorists carried out an attack in Brussels that left 32 dead and
scores wounded. A senior counter terrorism official has said the
26-year-old was probably going to be part of an attack planned by the
same ISIS cell.
“Hopefully Belgian counter terrorism
officials won’t make the same mistake they made last time with
Abdeslam,” said Bergen, the vice president of the New America public
policy institute. “They didn’t ask him about what else was in the
pipeline.”
Who is Mohamed Abrini?
His arrest means that Belgian authorities now have at least two people, along with Salah Abdeslam, who have been directly tied to the November 13 attacks in Paris.
“For French investigators, this can be
very big,” said CNN’s Nic Robertson. “This gives you a much stronger
position to be in to get to the truth … to (track) other terrorists on
the run down,” Robertson said. “And also to understand precisely what
happened in Paris.”
But according to Peter Bergen, a leading
terrorism expert and CNN analyst, Abrini’s arrest also puts pressure on
Belgian authorities to find out information quickly.
Days after Abdeslam was arrested,
terrorists carried out an attack in Brussels that left 32 dead and
scores wounded. A senior counter terrorism official has said the
26-year-old was probably going to be part of an attack planned by the
same ISIS cell.
“Hopefully Belgian counter terrorism
officials won’t make the same mistake they made last time with
Abdeslam,” said Bergen, the vice president of the New America public
policy institute. “They didn’t ask him about what else was in the
pipeline.”
Mohamed Abrini
According to a European police cooperative known as ENFAST, video showed Abrini with Abdeslam on November 11, two days before the massacre in the French capital.
The same Renault Clio that Abrini drove
was used in those attacks, ENFAST reports. Abdeslam told authorities he
drove a car of that same make and model to the Stade de France — where
suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a soccer game — and
abandoned it.
He then wandered into the subway and allegedly “contacted one person,” that being Abrini, CNN’s French affiliate BFMTV reported.
Abrini has a criminal record of violent theft. He also had
a younger brother killed while fighting for ISIS in 2014, and he was in
Istanbul, Turkey, briefly last summer and possibly in Syria.
Relatives have insisted Abrini was in Brussels the night of the Paris attacks.
More than four months later, Belgian
state broadcaster VRT reports Abrini was still in the Belgian capital —
playing a hands-on role in the terror attacks there.
He is “more than likely” one of three
men shown on surveillance video rolling luggage carts through Brussels
airport, according to VRT. The two others died in suicide blasts at the
airport, while the third walked away.
On Thursday, Belgian police released a
series of surveillance images showing him leaving the airport in
Zaventem, then heading west into the Brussels district of Schaerbeek,
over the course of two hours following the bombings.
Who is Osama Krayem?
Naim al Hamed, also known as Osama Krayem
The other person arrested, Osama Krayem,
may not have gotten as much attention after the Brussels attacks, but
that doesn’t make him any less dangerous.
That’s because Krayem is also Naim al Hamed. The
28-year-old was described as “very dangerous and probably armed” in a
bulletin circulated by French investigators to European security
services hours after the Brussels attacks.
A French source close to the
investigation into ISIS’ terror network in France and Belgium disclosed
that European security agencies believe Hamed, or Krayem, had an
operational role in the Brussels attack.
The French newspaper Le Monde reported
last month that his DNA was found at the apartment in Brussels’
Schaerbeek district where the three airport attackers left from the
morning of March 22.
Born on New Year’s Day 1988 in Hama,
Syria, he — like at least two of the Paris attackers — is thought to
have come to Europe, along with hundreds of refugees from war-torn
nations, via the Greek island of Leros.
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