Belgian investigators were hunting Wednesday for two suspects who fled an apartment linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, after a police sniper killed a third man and uncovered weapons, ammunition and an Islamic State flag, officials said Wednesday.
Four officers were wounded in the joint French-Belgian raid in a Brussels neighborhood and related searches.
Officials said the hunt is on for two more suspects who have not been identified. Two people were in custody.
The dead man was identified as an Algerian man living illegally in Belgium, Mohamed Belkaid, whose only contact with authorities appeared to be a years-old theft charge, said Thierry Werts, the Belgian federal prosecutor.
Belkaid, 35, was shot to death by a police sniper as he prepared to fire from a window, Werts said. Police also detained one man who was dropped off at a nearby hospital with a broken leg and another found in an overnight house search.
Werts and Eric Van der Spyt, his office’s spokesman, said a decision would be made later on whether to hold or release the two.
The patient with the broken leg has not yet been questioned, they said.
The anti-terror raid in the Forest neighborhood was linked to the Nov. 13 gun-and-bombing attacks on a stadium, cafes and a concert hall in Paris that left 130 people dead.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks, in which Belgian citizens played key roles.
Since the Paris attacks, the officials said 58 people have been arrested in the direct investigation and another 23 arrested in related probes.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
The Belgians and the French have been dragged kicking and screaming into the war with ISIS. Hopefully we in America will wake up in time.
Only time will tell, but maybe the French found their lost mojo.
I don’t think the french has had any mojo scince napoleon
Coming to The US soon
The last time the French and Belgium had any backbone was 1914-1918.
The French Resistance of WWII was legendary. Read a history book.
Even more so their collaboration with the Nazis. Read a history book.
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Hopefully law enforcement in every country will round up ISIS members and prosecute them to the full extent of their laws. The caliphate that ISIS seeks to establish is one of violence and pure evil.
Wait…….when you say….ISIS is coming, that only means that there is more on the way. Again, we as a Nation, have been lied too, when the DC voice’s, tell us that ISIS is coming……..Bull crap, they are here and have been here for a while……a long while. The real fearful part is that we as a nation are being treated like the [MUSHROOM Squadron]…..kept in the dark and fed “CRAP”, by those in “power”. The real question is WHY???.
We, know!!!!!!.