Suspected terror accomplice known as ‘Man in the Hat’ reportedly among several arrested

Mohamed Abrini, the terror suspect believed to be the "man in the hat," an accomplice of the suicide attackers at Belgium's Zaventem Airport bombing last month and the Paris massacre in November, was finally arrested in a terror sweep Friday after spending months on the run, a French police official told The Associated Press.

One other arrested suspect is a Swedish national named Osama K., a source tells Fox News. The Belgium Federal Prosecutor's office did not name any other suspects in custody.

Abrini reportedly was arrested in the Anderlecht district of Brussels. His DNA was believed to have been found in an apartment in the Schaarbeek neighborhood — the area where the airport suicide bombers were before the attack.

Abrini was the last suspect wanted in connection to the Paris attacks.
The announcement came a day after authorities released a chilling video showing the airport suspect, also known as the “man in white,” escaping last month after helping to carry out the devastating Brussels attacks, which left 32 people and three suicide bombers dead.

The suspect, in a white jacket and dark hat, became Europe's most wanted man after a security camera captured him and two suicide bombers pushing suitcases packed with explosives just before the March 22 attack.

The 2-minute clip, apparently spliced from a series of surveillance videos, shows the unidentified man striding purposely from Zaventem Airport, moving into a nearby town and then making his way to Brussels, where he disappeared.

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said authorities were especially interested in anyone who may have filmed the man. He is believed that at some point he discarded his white jacket.

Abrini, from Brussels’ Molenbeek neighborhood, was spotted twice with terror suspect Salah Abdeslam in the days leading up to the Nov. 13 attacks. He had been last seen with Abdeslam on surveillance footage at a gas station outside of Paris.

Abdeslam was arrested on March 18 and is being held in a prison in the Belgian city of Bruges. His lawyer said Thursday that his extradition to France will take weeks to happen.

Prosecutors in March said Abdeslam planned to blow himself up outside France’s national stadium during the Paris attacks, but backed out at the last minute.

Abdeslam is under preliminary terrorism charges in France for the attacks.

Lawyer Sven Mary said that before Belgian authorities allow Abdeslam to leave they want to question the 26-year-old suspect in another case — a deadly police raid in the Forest neighborhood of Brussels days before his arrest.

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