Belgian police arrested three people in a Brussels suburb on Tuesday during a new raid linked to the investigation into the November terror attacks on Paris, federal prosecutors said.
“Three people were arrested and held for questioning,” a statement said, adding the raid took place in the Belgian capital’s southern suburb of Uccle.
It said the raid was carried out “in the context of the investigation that the federal prosecutor opened following the attacks in Paris on November 13” which left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.
The investigating judge will decide Wednesday whether to continue holding the three, it said, without giving any further details.
A judge charged the two men, identified as Smail F., born in 1984, and Ibrahim F., born in 1988, over alleged links to the rental of a property that investigators believe was used as a “safe house” before the March 22 suicide bombings in Brussels.
The prosecutor’s office announced earlier that Belgium had charged two new suspects over the March 22 Brussels airport and metro bombings that left 32 people dead and hundreds wounded.

Paris-Brussels links

Prosecutors said in a statement that they had searched a house in the southern Brussels district of Uccle, taking into custody three people for questioning over the Nov. 13 shooting and bombing rampage in Paris.
Prosecutors did not comment on what was found in the house search but said the three people detained would appear before a judge on Wednesday to decide whether they would be charged.
Belgian prosecutors said on Sunday they had reason to believe that those behind the Brussels attacks, which killed 32 people, had initially planned to strike again in France.
Smail F., and Ibrahim F., six suspects have been arrested and charged since late last week as a result of investigations into the Brussels bombings.
“They are charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murders and attempts to commit terrorist murders, as a perpetrator, co-perpetrator or accomplice,” prosecutors said in their statement.

Damage is seen inside the departure terminal following the March 22, 2016 bombing at Zaventem Airport.

Police raided the suspected safe house in the central Brussels district of Etterbeek on Saturday, but found no weapons or explosives.
The Belgian newspaper DH said the two men had been seen on security camera footage entering the house the day after the attacks and carrying out several bags. Prosecutors were not immediately available for comment on that report.
Investigators have uncovered extensive links between the Paris and Brussels attacks, both of which were claimed by the Islamic State group.
The DNA of Brussels airport suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui was, for example, found on a suicide vest recovered at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where 90 people died on November 13.
On Friday, police netted another key Paris suspect, Mohamed Abrini, dubbed “the man in the hat” after he was seen in CCTV footage at Brussels airport shortly before the two bombers struck there.Belgium’s prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that the Brussels attackers had originally planned another assault in France but the arrest of Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam on March 18, coupled with a massive series of police raids, made them change plans and target Belgium instead.

Source: News Agencies, April 12