Belgium Arrests Ninth Person With Alleged Paris Terror Ties

Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).

A ninth person was arrested in Belgium for allegedly being tied to last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris, according to multiple reports.

Citing a statement from Belgian prosecutors, French news agency AFP reported that the Belgian national – whose full name was not released – was taken into custody on Tuesday for alleged “terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization.”

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 attacks, in which gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people at various venues around Paris. Seven people died while carrying out the attacks, though police have been searching for accomplices ever since.

AFP reported the newly arrested man, who was born in 1985, is accused of being in touch with the cousin of the attack’s suspected mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, multiple times before Abaaoud and the cousin were killed during a Nov. 18 police raid in a Paris suburb.

The man’s arrest was announced Thursday, two days after it occurred.

Reuters reported that prosecutors did not immediately disclose the arrest because they did not want to tip off any potential accomplices.

Authorities are still searching for Salah Abdeslam, a Belgium-born man believed to have been more directly involved in the attacks. French police have said an international warrant has been issued for his arrest, though he has eluded capture for more than a month.

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