Fingerprint of Paris suspect found in Belgian raid

A fingerprint of Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam has been found in a flat in Brussels where explosive belts may been manufactured, said police.

The federal prosecutor’s office said that traces of the explosive TATP and three handmade belts that might be used to transport explosives were found in the raid, the BBC reported.

The investigators of the Paris attacks that took place on November 13 have found a lead in solving the case.

Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national, remains at large and is one of Europe’s most-wanted men.

The discovery in an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of the Belgian capital was made during a search on December 10, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement, without clarifying why they were releasing the details now. “So you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to make the right deduction”, Van der Sypt told The Associated Press. “I suppose it’s a possibility of both”, he added.

The source said investigators had analyzed the suicide belt, found on a sidewalk on Rue Frederic Chopin in the Paris suburb of Montrouge, and discovered traces of sweat that matched Abdeslam’s DNA.

One of them was Abdeslam’s brother, Brahim.

Two of the attackers had been living in Brussels and Belgian authorities have arrested 10 people, including one who rented the apartment in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek. Abdeslam wasn’t actually wearing a device and on the way to the Belgian capital, but did brag about how he killed people with a Kalashnikov.

France has long said the attacks were prepared and organised in Belgium and that the mastermind was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Brussels resident who was killed in a police raid in Paris days after the massacre.