Bombs used during Paris attacks ‘made in Brussels apartment’

A Brussels apartment was probably used to make bombs for the Paris attacks and one of the plotters hid out there after escaping a police dragnet, Belgian prosecutors have said.

Salah Abdeslam’s fingerprint was found in the apartment on December 10, but prosecutors would not say why they waited a month to announce it. The search also turned up three suspected suicide belts, traces of the same explosive used in the November 13 attacks that killed 130 people, and other material that could be used to manufacture bombs, according to the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office.

The third-floor apartment was probably used as a hideout, after Abdeslam fled the attacks, federal prosecutor, Eric Van der Sypt, said.