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Najim Laachraoui has been identified as an accomplice of the Paris attackers who killed 130 people in a series of shootings and bombings last November.
In early December, the Belgian authorities put two alleged accomplices of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris attacks, on a wanted list. They had used forged Belgian IDs under the names of Samir Bouzid and Soufiane Kayal.
According to Belgium’s La Libre news outlet, the investigation established that the suspect named Soufiane Kayal can be identified as Najim Laachraoui, born May 18, 1991, who left for Syria in February 2013.
Abdeslam himself was arrested during a police raid in Brussels on Friday and formally charged the next day with terrorist murder in connection with the November 13 attacks that left 130 people dead and over 350 others injured.
Fresh footage of the capture was on Monday broadcast by the French news channel iTélé.
A second suspect has previously been named as Mohamed Abrini, 31, a Belgian national and childhood friend of Abdeslam in Brussels.
The identification of Najim Laachraoui comes shortly before the French president, François Hollande, and his justice minister met families of the victims of the attacks at the Elysée Palace on Monday afternoon.
Agencies/Canadajournal
