Francoise Schepmans

The alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was reported by French authorities on Thursday to have been killed the previous day during a police siege in the Paris suburb of St Denis. He was born in Belgium to a Moroccan-born immigrant shopkeeper who lives and owns a clothing store in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean borough of Brussels...

Belgian authorities have arrested five people during house searches in Brussels in connection with the deadly Paris attacks, a local official said today, but prosecutors did not confirm the number.

The alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was reported by French authorities on Thursday to have been killed the previous day during a police siege in the Paris suburb of St Denis. He was born in Belgium to a Moroccan-born immigrant shopkeeper who lives and owns a clothing store in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean borough of Brussels...

Belgian authorities have arrested five people during house searches in Brussels in connection with the deadly Paris attacks, a local official said today, but prosecutors did not confirm the number.