'The spider in the web is no longer a danger'

November 20, 2015 02:37

The death of the Belgian jihadist suspected of being behind a string of attacks in France removes "the spider in the web" of a Brussels-based Islamic State network, Belgian officials and experts said.

But other threats remain.

Alleged planner of last week's Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud was confirmed dead on Thursday after police stormed an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis.

A petty criminal who went to fight in Syria in 2013, he is believed to have recruited similar young men from immigrant families in his native Brussels district of Molenbeek and elsewhere in Belgium and France.

"The spider in the web is no longer a danger," Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said, calling it a "breakthrough".

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