(Brussels Times) One Belgian man was responsible for the planning of a series of terrorist attacks in Europe in 2015 and 2016, including the Paris attacks of November 2015 and the two attacks at Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro on 22 March 2016, French investigators have concluded.
According to the 561-page indictment drawn up by police investigating the Paris attacks at the Stade de France and Bataclan theatre in November 2015 in which a total of 130 people were killed, one man, the Belgian known as Oussama Atar, alias Abu Ahmed, was responsible for planning that attack, as well as a failed attack in Verviers in January 2015, the foiled attack on a Thalys train in August 2015, and the March 2016 attacks in Brussels. Belgian police helped complete the French authorities’ investigation.
