“The net is closing further around the different command cells which started in Verviers,” Geens told public television, referring to the eastern town where Abaaoud, 28, had boasted of evading capture in January when police killed two of his associates from Molenbeek in a raid on a safe house. Security services were closing in on Abaaoud’s cells as the government announced new laws to crack down on Islamists after sharp criticism from France that Belgian was lax in dealing with the biggest concentration of Syria-linked radicals in Europe. ![]() “The spider in the web is no longer a danger,” Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said, calling it a “breakthrough”. A petty criminal who went to fight in Syria in 2013, he is believed to have recruited similar young men from immigrant families in his native Brussels district of Molenbeek and elsewhere in Belgium and France. ![]() REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV/FilesĪlleged planner of last week’s Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud was confirmed dead on Thursday after police stormed an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. ![]() An undated file photograph of a man described as Abdelhamid Abaaoud that was published in the Islamic State's online magazine Dabiq and posted on a social media website.
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