Belgian prosecutors believe they have found the fingerprint of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam in an apartment in Brussels. 
 
 Police discovered traces of explosives, handmade suicide belts and the fingerprint of Abdeslam, who is still at large. 
 
 The search took place on 10 December in an apartment in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Friday. Police found material that could be used to make explosives as well as traces of the highly volatile explosive TATP. 
 
 According to the prosecutor’s office, the apartment had been rented under a false identity that may have been used by one of the 10 people arrested in Belgium in connection with the 13 November attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. 
 
 The Paris attacks on bars, a rock concert at the Bataclan concert hall and the national stadium are believed to have been in part planned and coordinated in Belgium. 
 
 Belgian police have arrested 10 people on terrorism charges in connection with the investigation. Nine are still in police custody, including several people suspected of having helped Abdeslam to go on the run. 
 
 Abdeslam, 26, is a Brussels-born French citizen of Moroccan descent, who once ran a bar in the Belgian capital. He is thought to have been involved in planning the attacks and is believed by police to have escorted the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the Stade de France national stadium. 
 
 He is also believed to have perhaps planned to carry out his own suicide attack in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, and perhaps backed out. His brother blew himself up and died at a Paris bar on Boulevard Voltaire during the attacks. 
 
 Abdeslam has been on the run since he called friends to collect him from Paris and drive him to Brussels in the early hours after the attacks. 
 
 
 
 Abdeslam’s trace ran cold on Saturday 14 November at about 2pm in a street in Schaerbeek, where men in custody told Belgian police they had dropped him off. 
 
 Separately, Belgium’s federal prosecutor, Frédéric Van Leeuw, warned that the country faced the risk of a terrorist attack next Friday, 15 January, on the first anniversary of a foiled attack on the city of Verviers in 2015. 
 
 Two gunmen were killed in a shootout nearly a year ago after Belgian police launched a pre-emptive strike against terrorists in the advanced stages of planning attacks. 
 
 Speaking on Flemish-language channel VTM on Thursday night, the prosecutor warned that someone could attempt an attack on the anniversary. 
 
 
 
 “We are conscious of the symbolic value of 15 January for the terrorists, but we are ready,�? Van Leeuw said. ||||| PARIS (Reuters) - Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was placed under formal investigation on terrorism and murder charges in France on Wednesday after his extradition from Belgium, and he promised to talk to judges during his next hearing, his French lawyer said. 
 
 A Belgium-born Frenchman, Abdeslam is believed by investigators to be the sole survivor among a group of Islamist militants who killed 130 people in a spate of shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on Nov. 13. 
 
 “The investigation will determine to what degree he was involved in the acts ... for which he has been put under investigation,” lawyer Frank Berton said after an initial hour-long hearing. 
 
 “He stayed silent today but said he would talk at a later stage,” Berton said, adding that the next hearing was set for May 20. Abdeslam did not speak on Wednesday because he was tired after a “quite rough” extradition, Berton said. 
 
 Abdeslam was placed under investigation on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, murder, kidnapping and holding weapons and explosives, the public prosecutor said in a statement. The kidnap charges relate to the hours-long attack on the Bataclan concert hall in which 90 people were killed. 
 
 Abdeslam, 26, was Europe’s most wanted fugitive until his capture in Brussels on March 18 after a four-month manhunt. He was taken by helicopter to Paris under armed guard and then driven to the capital’s main law courts. 
 
 French Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas said Abdeslam would be held in solitary confinement in a high-security prison in the Paris region, with his cell under CCTV surveillance. 
 
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 Four days after Abdeslam’s capture, other Islamist militants blew themselves up at Brussels international airport and on a metro train, killing 32 people. 
 
 Investigators have said Abdeslam told them he arranged logistics for the multiple suicide bombings and shooting attacks in Paris and had planned to blow himself up at the Stade de France sports stadium before backing out at the last minute. 
 
 He is suspected of having rented two cars used to transport the attackers to, and around, the French capital. 
 
 Abdeslam’s elder brother Brahim, with whom he used to run a bar in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, blew himself up in a suicide bomb attack on one of several Paris cafes targeted by a group of assailants armed with AK-47 rifles and suicide vests. 
 
 Salah Abdeslam’s confession to investigators suggested he may have been the 10th man referred to in an Islamic State claim of responsibility for the multi-pronged attack on the stadium, bars and the Bataclan concert hall. 
 
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 Police found an abandoned suicide vest in a rubbish bin in a Paris suburb following the attacks, stirring speculation that it might have belonged to Abdeslam, who escaped by car back to Belgium a few hours later. 
 
 Belgian police have arrested a number of his associates, including Mohamed Abrini, who was wanted in connection with both the Paris and Brussels attacks. 
 
 Sven Mary, Abdeslam’s main defense lawyer in Belgium, distanced himself from his client, telling France’s Liberation newspaper: “He’s a little jerk from Molenbeek, from a world of petty criminals - more of a follower than a leader, with the brains of an empty ash-tray.” ||||| The most wanted fugitive from November's Paris attacks has been "caught alive" after being wounded in a Brussels shootout, say police. 
 
 The Belgian asylum minister Theo Francken declared, "We got him", referring to 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, Europe's most wanted man. 
 
 Abdeslam suffered leg injuries before being arrested, during a major police operation in the Molenbeek suburb. 
 
 Television footage showed armed security forces dragging a man wearing a hooded top out of a building and to a car. 
 
 At least 10 shots were heard, grenades launched and police helicopters hovered overhead, while fire engines waited in the street. 
 
 A suspect is dragged into a car after a raid in Molenbeek 
 
 Footage showed masked, black-clad security forces training their weapons towards upper windows of an apartment block. 
 
 White smoke could be seen rising above the building, as police with snarling dogs drove crowds in the streets back away from the scene. 
 
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 About three hours after Abdeslam's arrest, two blasts were heard, before a further suspect - who was still holed up - was detained. 
 
 In all, Abdeslam was one of five people arrested in the series of raids, which came after a tip-off to police. 
 
 Two of the suspects, including Abdeslam, were injured. 
 
 Three of those arrested are being held on suspicion of sheltering Abdeslam and an accomplice. 
 
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 French president Francois Hollande and Belgian PM Charles Michel left a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on migration amid news of the raid. 
 
 Later, the pair held a joint news conference in Brussels where Mr Hollande said France would ask for Abdeslam's extradition. 
 
 The French leader said it was clear that the Paris attackers had links to Syria and Islamic State and the terror threat remained high. 
 
 The shootout comes after Belgian authorities said that fingerprints in a Brussels apartment raided earlier this week belonged to Abdeslam. 
 
 A man shot dead in that raid is believed to have been an accomplice of Abdeslam, Belgian prosecutors said on Friday. 
 
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 Sky's foreign affairs editor Sam Kiley said that Abdeslam could prove to be "a goldmine of intelligence". 
 
 Survivors of the attack at the Bataclan venue in Paris reacted to news of the arrest this evening. 
 
 Lydia Berkennou said: "I don’t know why, but deep down in my heart, I knew one of them was him. 
 
 "I knew because I didn’t think he would’ve managed to go back to Syria … I knew he was hiding somewhere." 
 
 Back in November it was reported that Abdeslam had reportedly returned to Brussels with a suicide vest. 
 
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 A police source had told The Sunday Times of fears "there is a walking bomb" in the Belgian capital. 
 
 The source said Abdeslam may have become "trapped and desperate" since fleeing the bloodshed which killed 130 people. 
 
 After the Paris attacks, reports emerged of a row between Abdeslam and his brother Brahim, on the night before the massacre. 
 
 One of their friends told a French documentary he heard one of the brothers telling the other that he was "not going" without money. 
 
 "The other one said: 'No, you’re going!' 
 
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 "He said to him: 'If I don't have any dosh, I’m not budging. Without dosh I’m not going'," the friend told the documentary. 
 
 It is unclear whether they were fighting about going to Paris. 
 
 Brahim, 31, eventually blew himself up outside a cafe, injuring 15 people, during the co-ordinated attacks. 
 
 Abdeslam was also filmed outside a cafe on the night of the massacre, pointing his gun at two women hiding under outside tables. 
 
 The women can be seen running for safety after Abdeslam's gun does not go off. 
 
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 Terror expert Dr David Lowe told Sky News: "These people are not working on their own - we are looking at terror cells in operations 
 
 "You have to be very very careful before you make the move … you want to gather as much evidence as possible. 
 
 "We’re talking about people who are quite willing to use firearms or explosive devices so … it’s a dangerous situation to have."
– Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the Paris terror attacks and Europe's most wanted man, was captured alive Friday during a raid in Brussels, Belgian counterterrorism sources tell CNN and the AP. The 26-year-old was believed to be hiding out in a Brussels apartment since the Nov. 13 attacks, and a raid on that apartment earlier this week turned up Abdeslam's fingerprints and DNA. But two people escaped that raid, apparently including Abdeslam. (One person, an Algerian also believed to have been involved in the Paris attacks via calls from Belgium, was killed in that raid.) Friday's raid reportedly involved a shootout that ended with Abdeslam being brought into custody. Abdeslam is a brother of one of the suicide attackers in Paris, and he is believed to have driven three suicide bombers to one of the attack sites. "We got him," Belgium's asylum minister said about Abdeslam Friday, per Sky News.