Belgium extradites Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam to France

April 27, 2016 14:04

Belgium has extradited Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to face trial in France, the BBC reports.

He was wounded and arrested in a dramatic raid in Brussels on 18 March after four months on the run.

The 26-year-old French national was born in Brussels and lived there before the Paris attacks.

Some 130 people were killed and dozens wounded in co-ordinated attacks carried out by so-called Islamic State in Paris on 13 November.

The federal prosecutor said Salah Abdeslam had been "surrendered to the French authorities this morning (in execution of the European Arrest Warrant issued by France on 19 March 2016)".

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