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Morocco Arrests Belgian With 'Direct Links' To Paris Attackers

Morocco Arrests Belgian With 'Direct Links' To Paris Attackers
Bullet impacts are seen in the window of a restaurant window the day after a series of deadly attacks in Paris , November 14, 2015. (Reuters Photo)
Rabat, Morocco: Morocco said on Monday it had arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan descent who it said was directly linked with some of those behind the jihadist attacks in Paris in November.

The interior ministry said in a statement that the suspect, arrested on Friday in the town of Al-Muhammadiyah near Casablanca, had "direct links with some" of the Paris attackers and had travelled to Syria where he joined the Islamic State group.

 

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