Morocco authorities on January 18th announced the arrest of one of the fatal Paris attack masterminds whose name has not been released to the public. He was arrested in Mohammadia city which is 100km south of the Morocco’s capital Rabat.
The arrested man is a Belgian of Moroccan descent and is said to have helped mastermind the attack and has direct links to Salah Abdeslam the key suspect of the November 2015 Paris attack who is still at large and a multinational manhunt is in pursuit.
The arrested suspect is the second man of Moroccan decent to be linked with the notorious Paris attack that left at least 130 people dead after Abdekhamid Abaaoud was shot dead in a police raid in Paris.
