Brussels – March 18, 2016

• Terrorist Salah Abdeslam, one of the masterminds of the Paris terror attacks that killed 130, was arrested today in Molenbeek (Brussels), after a four month manhunt.

• The police raid came after Abdeslam’s fingerprints were found on Tuesday in a flat in Forest (another Brussels neighborhood). Mohamed Belkaid, an accomplice of Abdeslam, was shot dead in Tuesday’s raid.

• Monir Ahmed Al Hadj, another suspected terrorist was also arrested today.

• President Barack Obama congratulated the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and the French president François Hollande on the phone, after today’s successful police raid.

• “We must catch all those who allowed, organised or facilitated these attacks and we realise that they are a lot more numerous than we thought earlier and had identified” said French president Hollande.