Belgian terror raid: Arms dealer linked to Charlie Hebdo massacre arrested

January 16, 2015 01:17

Belgian investigators said earlier today they are probing whether an arms dealer sold weapons used in the Paris attacks, after confirming supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly sold the man a car belonging to his partner Hayat Boumeddiene.

There was no immediate confirmation of any link between the Coulibaly investigation and Thursday's raid.

The man, Neetin Farasula, from the airport city of Charleroi in French-speaking southern Belgium, is in detention on suspicion of a possible link to the weapons used in the Paris attacks.

Belgian prosecutors are working with French authorities to establish any "possible link" to last week's attacks at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

Coulibaly, who was killed by police on Friday, is also believed to have shot dead a policewoman in another Paris attack.

Prosecutor spokesman Eric Van der Sijpt said that the Belgian suspect "bought the car belonging to Coulibaly's wife."

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