Belgium on Friday handed Mohamed Bakkali, a key suspect in the deadly 2015 attacks in Paris, over to French authorities, the federal prosecutor’s office in Brussels said.
“Mohamed B. was handed over to the French judicial authorities today,” a statement said.
Bakkali is suspected of helping to organise the coordinated gun and suicide bomb attacks in the French capital, which left 130 people dead on November 13, 2015.
The 30-year-old was arrested in Brussels barely two weeks after the bloodbath and charged over his role in the terror attacks.
He is accused of notably renting a BMW seen near three safe houses where the Paris attacks were prepared.
A Belgian court agreed in June 2016 to transfer Bakkali to France for trial, on the condition that he would have to serve any eventual sentence in Belgium.
In November, Bakkali was also charged over an August 2015 attack on a Paris-bound Thalys train that left two passengers injured.
Source: AFP
