Belgian police find Paris fugitive's fingerprint, belts in flat

Belgian police have found three belts for possible use in suicide attacks, traces of explosives and a fingerprint of wanted Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam at a Brussels flat, prosecutors said Jan. 8.

Prosecutors said Abdeslam might have hidden in the flat after the November 13 attacks, but that they were also working on the theory that the explosive devices used in the massacre could have been made there.
 
The discovery was made in December during a search of an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of the Belgian capital. It was rented by someone using a false name, possibly used by another suspect now in custody, they said.
 
"In the framework of the investigation opened after the Paris attacks the federal prosecutor confirms that during a house search conducted December 10th in an apartment on the third floor, Rue Berg in Schaerbeek, material that can be used to fabricate explosives as well as traces of TATP were found," the prosecutor said.    
"This apartment was rented under a false identity that might have been used by a person already in custody in this case," the statement added.
 
"Three handmade belts that might be used to transport explosives as well as a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam were also discovered."  

Police have been hunting for Belgian-born Abdeslam, 26, since suicide bombers and assailants firing automatic weapons killed 130 people and wounded many more in a wave of attacks across Paris.
 
Investigators said friends drove Abdeslam from Paris back to the Belgian capital, slipping through three police checks, while one suspect has since said that he drove Abdeslam across Brussels to Schaerbeek on Nov. 14.
         
Federal prosecutors spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt said...