France holds two over possible Brussels attacker link

(AFP) French police are holding two people suspected of being associated with the Islamist gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels earlier this month, anti-terror prosecutors said Monday.

The suspects were presented to a judge on Monday with a view to bringing potential charges for membership in a terrorist organisation, they told AFP.

The two suspects, who reside in the Paris region, were among four people arrested last week as part of an investigation into possible accomplices of Abdesalem Lassoued who killed the fans just before the start of a Belgium-Sweden international football match and was himself fatally shot in a police operation later.

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