Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been charged over a deadly shootout with police in Brussels a week before the suicide bombings in the Belgian capital, his lawyer said on Thursday.
“He has been charged with attempted murder either alone or jointly” over the gunbattle at an apartment in the Forest district of Brussels on March 15, lawyer Sven Mary said. An Algerian Islamist suspect was killed and four police officers were wounded in the shooutout, which led to Abdeslam’s arrest three days later in the Molenbeek area of Brussels after a four-month European manhunt.