Brussels attacks: Journalist thought to be ‘man in white’ on terrorist murder charge

A suspect who was caught standing outside the prosecutors’ office has been charged with terrorist murder over the Brussels attacks. Faycal Cheffou has been identified as the so-called 'man in white’ bomber caught on CCTV before the Zaventem Airport blasts but this has not been confirmed. Cheffou, a freelance journalist who was once reported to the police by his sister for saying he wanted to go to Syria, was captured near the prosecutors’ office while a series of police raids was going across the city on Thursday. A second suspect, named as Aboubakar A, has also been charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group.

That is a hypothesis the investigators are working on

Source close to the inquiry when asked if Cheffou is the 'man in white’

Cheffou, who lives in a small apartment 500m from the Maelbeek metro station where the second attack took place on Tuesday, was known to police over drugs and violence, it was reported. His home was searched after his arrest but no explosives or firearms were found. Meanwhile, prosecutors said a third man, Rabah N, has been charged with participating in terrorist activities in relation to an investigation in Paris, where police found a stash of explosives in a raid on Friday. Another man, who was shot by police at a tram station in Schaerbeek on Friday, is still being questioned amid reports he did not surrender because he did not speak French or Flemish.

It’s traumatizing for the little one. We don’t know. Is he really a suspect? Here, we doubt it a little.

Schaerbeek resident Marie-Madeleine Yamotia voices concern about the police shooting of a man, who was with a young girl

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