Shootout as Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam arrested

The most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks was arrested after a shootout with police in Brussels yesterday, said Belgium’s prime minister.

Charles Michel described the capture of French suspect Salah Abdeslam, aged 26, and two others as “a very important result in the battle for democracy”.

French president François Hollande said he was confident they had links to Syria and to Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed 130 people.