Brussels attacks 'man in white' is Paris attacker Mohammed Abrini - reports
PARIS attacker, Mohammed Abrini, was one of the three suicide bombers who attacked Brussels Airport in Tuesday's deadly attacks.
The identity of the 'man in white' has been revealed
According to Belgian reports, Mohammed Abrini is one of the most wanted suspects of the November Paris attacks who travelled to the UK last year.
The Belgian, of Moroccon origin, is on the run and he is a childhood friend of Salah Abdeslam, who also escaped after the Paris killings but was captured last week.
He is the only Paris terrorist still on the run and he visited the UK four months before launching the attacks in Paris last November.
CCTV caught him running from the scene shortly before two blasts went off in Brussels airport on Tuesday morning.
Salah is a childhood friend of Abrinis's - pictured in a petrol station
Football fans gather on the field of the Stade de France stadium shortly after the Paris attacks
He is the only Paris terrorist still on the run
According to Sudpresse, Abrini, 31, is the man in beige wearing glasses, a blue hat and pushing a trolley that carried the largest of three explosive devices. CCTV caught him running from the scene shortly before the blasts.
The man with one glove on the far left has been identified as Ibrahim El Bakraoui, while the other one-gloved terrorist to the far left is widely reported to be Najim Laachraoui, the suspected bomb maker for both the Brussels and Paris atrocities.
French fans sing National Anthem La Marseillaise during the evacuation from Stade de France
Abrini’s visit to the UK was confirmed by Interpol president Mireille Ballestrazzi on the BBC’s Panorama. The programme claimed photos of a football stadium, it is not known which, were found on Abrini’s phone.
France has confirmed that Abrini was in the UK last year in July and he flew back to France from Birmingham.
The Paris attacks left 129 people dead
Abrini worked in a Brussels bakery at one point and was brought up in Molenbeek in Brussels, the native district of several of the Paris and Brussels jihadists.
When France issued a warrant for his arrest last year, he was described as “dangerous and probably armed”.
US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks in Brussels on Friday with Belgian and the European Commission, where he also offered US assistance in the security operation.