BREAKING NEWS – Police capture world’s most wanted man: ISIS fugitive behind Paris attacks is shot in raid on Brussels hideout
Salah Abdeslam has been shot in leg and captured alive by French police
The 26-year-old was wounded then ‘retreated into a house in Molenbeek’
Terror suspect was with two other men and one of the men ‘may be dead’
Abdeslam believed to have played key role in Paris attacks and had been on run for 126 days
By ALEX MATTHEWS and JULIAN ROBINSON
DaiyMail.com
18 March 2016
The world’s most wanted man, a prime suspect in the Paris terrorist attacks, has been wounded in a police raid in Brussels.
Salah Abdeslam was shot in the leg by police commandos and has been captured alive in the district of Molenbeek in the Belgian capital.
Belgian prosecutors said earlier today that his fingerprints were found at the scene of a separate police raid on a Brussels flat, which took place on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old, whose brother blew himself up during the slaughter in Paris in November, was said to be one of the suspects who went on the run after a shoot-out.
He has now been wounded and captured in a fresh raid conducted by police this afternoon.
It is understood grenades were used in the operation.
Gun shots and explosions were heard while white smoke was seen in the area as police moved in on Abdeslam, who had been on the run for 126 days.
A Belgium police source confirmed that he had been ‘caught alive’.
He was wounded, and then retreated into a house in Molenbeek with two men. At least one of the other men is wounded, and one may be dead, said the source.
The prime minister of Belgium, Charles Michel, was seen rushing out of a European Council summit in Brussels as news of the raid broke.
EU leaders are meeting in the Belgian capital, just five miles away from where the anti-terror operation was taking place in Molenbeek.
Francois Hollande, who is in Brussels for the EU summit, confirmed that today’s police operation was linked to last November’s attacks on Paris.
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