Police investigating the Brussels attacks are trying to find out if a terror suspect arrested in the Belgian capital is the 'man in the hat' who escaped after the airport bombings.
Mohamed Abrini, one of Europe's most wanted men, was the last suspect on the run in connection with last November's shootings and bombings in Paris.
And he was thought to be the fugitive Brussels airport attacker pictured on CCTV with the two suicide bombers in the departure hall before the blasts, according to French officials.
But Belgian authorities said they could not confirm this at the moment and the inquiry was still under way as they arrested five people in the city.
"We are investigating if Abrini can be identified as the third person at the Brussels national airport, the so-called man with the hat," said prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt.
Abrini's DNA was found in a flat in the Schaarbeek area of the city where airport bombers Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui left from before they detonated their explosives, say prosecutors.
They added his fingerprints were also discovered in a Renault Clio used in the Paris attacks.
Abrini was believed to have visited Birmingham a number of times last year, where he met several men suspected of terrorist activity.
Mobile phone footage has captured the moment a man believed to be Abrini was arrested in Brussels.
In the new video - taken by a bystander - the suspect was seen lying face down on the ground before being dragged into a car by security forces.
Abrini was arrested in Brussels along with two other unnamed people in the operation linked to last month's suicide bombings which killed 32 people at Zaventem airport and a metro station.
Two others were also arrested elsewhere in Brussels, including Osama Kraiem who prosecutors say was caught on CCTV at a shopping centre buying the suitcases used in the airport blasts.
Authorities are checking whether Kraiem could have been with bomber Khalid El Bakraoui at a metro station before the latter blew himself up on a train soon after.
Another man detained has been named as Herve B.M.
The 'man in the hat' escaped after the airport blasts and a unexploded bomb was found at the site.
If confirmed it was Abrini , it would mean he played a key role in both attacks carried out by an Islamic State cell.
The 31-year-old suspect, who is a Belgian of Moroccan origin, was arrested in the Anderlecht district of Brussels - the area was home to several other suspects linked to both attacks.
Abrini's detention comes a day after authorities released new CCTV footage of the 'man in the hat', appealing for the public to help find him.
Abrini was a key suspect wanted in connection with the Paris attacks on 13 November which claimed the lives of 130 people.
Europol said he was filmed two days before the atrocities at a petrol station with another suspect, Salah Abdeslam, on the road to the French capital.
He later disappeared and was described by Europol as armed and dangerous.
Abdeslam was detained last month , a few days before the Brussels attacks, and is now awaiting extradition to France.
His lawyer said he had intended to blow himself up in Paris but backed out at the last minute
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