BREAKING NEWS:.... Fugitive 'blood brother' is 'arrested in Belgium fleeing apartment building with hands in air as police fired tear gas'
Witnesses said they also heard explosions and sounds like gunfire during the operation to surround the top floor flat in Brussels today. One soldier, appeared to be in charge and after the gas was fired in troops used a thermal camera to watch the results
Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, launched a solo attack outside the cafe Comptoir Voltaire, close to the scene of the Bataclan concert hall massacre on Friday night. His brother Mohamed Abdeslam, """a former council worker""", was arrested in Molenbeek in western Brussels, a day after the attacks in the French capital, in which at least 129 were killed and hundreds more were injured. Police missed their chance to bring in the third brother, Salah, when he was questioned as he crossed the border to Belgium after the attacks. He is now the object of a massive international manhunt. (NOW CAUGHT AS ABOVE PHOTO SHOWS)
Today their mother defended Ibrahim, suggesting his suicide jacket may have gone off by accident and said he could have carried out the attack because he was 'stressed'
