- Belgium could jail him for 40 years
Three Belgian police officers and a French colleague were lightly injured when a gunman opened fire as they searched a property in the Forest district of Brussels on 15 March 2016, in connection with the Paris attacks.2. Abdeslam may be linked to the Brussels attacks
Four days after his capture, three suicide bombers killed 32 people and wounded 340 at Brussels airport and a metro station.
Belgian prosecutors believe Abdeslam was associated with the bombers but no charges have been filed.
It has been suggested he was part of an IS cell preparing attacks timed for Easter but when he was caught they were brought forward. His jihadist collaborators may have been worried that their cover had been blown.3. He should have died in Paris...
...according to French reports, based on a confession he made to police just after his arrest, where he described driving three of the other attackers in a car.
He had taken a suicide bomb belt but it failed to go off and he dropped it in a bin.![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmSn7viLKaYNGuyVqEVmJdjNydV1Q6L7g9tKBrjcuBRx3K/image.png)