New suspect Mohamed Abrini being hunted over Paris attacks

Belgian authorities have charged a fifth suspect with terror offences relating to the Paris attacks.

The federal prosecutor’s office also issued an international warrant for Mohamed Abrini, who is being tracked by both Belgian and French police.

Authorities are looking for Abrini because he was seen with fugitive Salah Abdeslam at a petrol station in Ressons, on the highway to Paris, two days before the November 13 attacks.

They said that Abrini was driving the Renault Clio used in the attacks in Paris on November 13 that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds of others.

An accompanying police wanted poster described Abrini as “dangerous and probably armed”.

The prosecutor said he had been filmed with Abdeslam around 7pm on Wednesday, November 11, at Ressons on the Paris-Brussels motorway.

The prosecutor also gave details of two people previously charged with terrorist offences and said that a fifth, unnamed, person had been charged on Tuesday.

The only two people facing charges who had previously been named were Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou.

They admit to driving from Brussels to Paris to fetch Abdeslam hours after Abdeslam’s brother had blown himself up during the attacks. However they deny any knowledge of what Abdeslam had been doing in France.

The prosecutor said a French citizen named as Ali O, 31, living in the Molenbeek district of Brussels and arrested on Sunday, had picked Abdeslam up in a car after Amri and Attou brought him back to Brussels on November 14.