Terror suspect Abrini admits he was 'man in hat' at Brussels airport

Source: AFP

Brussels (AFP) - Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini confessed Saturday to being "the man in the hat" caught on video with suicide bombers at Brussels airport last month, images that had sparked a massive manhunt.

Abrini made the admission on the day he was charged with terrorist murders over the November attacks in Paris which left 130 people dead, prosecutors said.

Terror suspect Osama Krayem, a Swedish national, received the same charges over his role in a suicide bombing at a Brussels metro station on March 22, which occurred an hour after the airport blasts. A total of 32 people died in the coordinated attacks.

The latest arrests strengthened the theory that the same cell carried out both France and Belgium's worst ever terror outrages, claimed by the Islamic State group.

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