Belgium – Prosecutors: Brussels Attack Suspect Admits To Being ‘Man In Hat’

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    Police vehicles gather in Anderlect after fugitive Mohamed Abrini was arrested in a suburb of Brussels, Belgium, April 8, 2016.    REUTERS/Yves HermanBelgium – The Federal Prosecution Office in Brussels says it can confirm that arrested terror suspect Mohamed Abrini was the third man present at Brussels Airport during the March 22 suicide bombings there.

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    Authorities have been frantically seeking the “man in the hat” ever since he was filmed alongside the two bombers just before the airport attack that killed 16 people. Belgian authorities recently released more footage of the man leaving the airport in the wake of the bombings, walking down sidewalks and past a hotel.

    Albrini was arrested Friday in Brussels in a police raid. The prosecutor’s office said Saturday that Abrini “confessed his presence at the crime scene” after being confronted by investigators.‎

    ‎”We confronted him with the video evidence prepared by our special unit,” a spokesman for the prosecutors’ office said. “He had to admit it was him.”‎


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    8 years ago

    And the liberals will let him go in two days anyhow for “lack of incriminating evidence.