Brother of suspected Paris attack mastermind arrested in Morocco

  20 November 2015    Read: 832
Brother of suspected Paris attack mastermind arrested in Morocco
Moroccan authorities last month arrested Yassine Abaaoud, a younger brother of the suspected Islamic State mastermind of the Paris attacks after he arrived in his father`s hometown of Agadir, a Moroccan security source said on Friday.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian militant of Moroccan origin, 28, is believed to have orchestrated last week`s coordinated bombings and shootings that killed 129 people. He was among those later killed in a police raid in a Paris suburb.

Yassine was arrested last month after his plane landed in Agadir and has been held in custody since, a Moroccan security source, who declined to be named, told Reuters. "He has been held for about one month now," the source said.

It was unclear if Abdelhamid`s younger brother has ties with his militant cell in Europe. The source declined to give further details on the arrest.

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