Algeria arrests Paris attacks suspect

A local public prosecutor in Algeria on Sunday said an Algerian was taken into custody as a suspect of the terrorist attacks hitting Paris on November 2015.

The prosecutor said the suspect was summoned by the judge of the Court of Akbou in the province of Bejaia, 250 km eastern Algiers.

The man, residing in Belgium, was suspected of belonging to the terrorist group involved in the Paris bombing, the prosecutor said, avoiding to provide more details, including the identity of the suspect, until the end of the investigation.

French Interior Minister Bernard Kaznov had told reporters that Paris attacks, which killed 132 people and injured 349 others, were planned in Belgium.
  [Xinhua -china.org.cn]
28/2/16
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