Official: Paris fugitive hid out in suspected Brussels bomb factory

Associated Press

BRUSSELS

Belgian prosecutors on Friday revealed new details about the biggest mystery in the Paris attacks: What happened to fugitive Salah Abdeslam after he ditched his car and explosive vest?

After slipping through a police dragnet, they said, he apparently hid out in the same Brussels apartment that served as the killers’ bomb factory.

“We found material to make explosives, we found traces of explosives and we found three belts. So you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to make the right deduction,” Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt told The Associated Press.

Also discovered during a Dec. 10 police search of the third-floor residence: one of 26-year-old Abdeslam’s fingerprints, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.