Belgium seeks two new 'dangerous' Paris attack suspects
Belgium on Friday said it was searching for two new "armed and dangerous" men who used false ID papers to help wanted Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam travel to Hungary in September.
The fake identity card of one of the suspects was also used to wire money from Brussels to Paris and the cousin of attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud four days after the massacre in the French capital, the Belgian prosecutor's office said.
Both men are unidentified but carried the identities of Belgian nationals Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid.
"The Federal Prosecutor's Office and the investigating judge wish to appeal to the public again to look out for two new suspects the investigators are actively searching for," the prosecutors said in a statement.
According to the statement, Abdeslam was stopped by police at the Hungary-Austria border on September 9 accompanied by two men who carried false ID papers identifying themselves as Kayal and Bouzid.
The ID of Samar Bouzid was also used to rent a house in the town of Auvelias in southern Belgium that Belgian media reports say was used a hideout to plan the Parisattacks.
Meanwhile, Bouzid's false identity card was used four days after the Paris attacks to transfer 750 euros ($800) to Abaaoud's cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen from a Western Union office in Brussels, the statement said.
Abaaoud and Aitboulahcen were both killed the next day in a police raid north of Paris, along with a still unidentified third person.
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