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Who is Mohamed Abrini: Last Paris attacker, Brussels accomplice arrested in Belgium

By Debbie Lord
April 8, 2016

French officials have confirmed that a key suspect in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris -- the person who has been called "the man  in the hat" after being seen in a video at the Brussels airport moments before bombs went off there – has been arrested in Belgium.

Mohamed Abrini, the last suspect police were searching for in connection with the attacks in Paris and the man believed to be the coordinator of the attacks in Brussles, was picked up along with at least two others in a suburb of that city.

Belgian media sources say authorities there believe Abrini is likely the "man in the hat" seen on CCTV before the blasts in the Brussels airport on March 22.

Several arrests were reported Friday in connection with the attacks at the airport and a Brussels metro station that left 32 dead and hundreds wounded.

Who is Abrini? What did he do? Where did they catch him?

Sources: The New York Times; The Associated Press; The BBC; The Guardian

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