We got him! Paris attacks fugitive Abdeslam captured after shoot-out in Brussels

Europe’s most wanted man has been “caught alive” after being wounded in a Brussels shoot-out. Salah Abdeslam, who was being hunted over the Paris terror attacks in November, is believed to have been shot in the leg during a major police operation in the Molenbeek suburb of the city. A second man was reported to have died in the raid. At least 10 shots were heard and grenades were also used in the operation and smoke was seen coming form a building. Belgium’s prime minster Charles Michel has left the EU-Turkey migrant crisis summit as news of his arrest came through.

We got him

Theo Francken, Belgium government minister

Abdeslam, a French national born in Brussels, has been the subject of a massive manhunt since the Paris attacks, which left 130 people dead. His older brother, Brahim, was one of the suicide bombers. Earlier, it emerged that he had slipped through the fingers of police who raided another Brussels hideaway on Tuesday. The 26-year-old was one of two men thought to have escaped as officers swooped on a flat in the Forest district of the capital. His fingerprints and DNA were found at the property, where another terror suspect was shot dead in gun battles which also left four police officers wounded.

According to our information, it is more than likely that he is one of the two individuals who escaped during the shootout

Belgian broadcaster RTBF, referring to the Forest raid

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