FRANCE-SHOOTING/BELGIUM Man held in Belgium over possible weapons sale to Paris attacker
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324350
FRANCE-SHOOTING/BELGIUM Man held in Belgium over possible weapons sale to Paris attacker
- Title: FRANCE-SHOOTING/BELGIUM Man held in Belgium over possible weapons sale to Paris attacker
- Date: 15th January 2015
- Summary: CHARLEROI, BELGIUM (JANUARY 15, 2015) (REUTERS) SIGN, READING: "CHARLEROI" / EXTERIOR OF CHARLEROI POLICE STATION SIGN, READING (French): "POLICE STATION" POLICE VAN OUTSIDE POLICE STATION SIGN, READING (French): "POLICE STATION, ACCESS FORBIDDEN TO ALL NON-AUTHORISED PERSONS" CAR LEAVING POLICE STATION ARMED POLICE POLICE STATION VARIOUS OF INTERIOR OF POLICE STATION VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF POLICE STATION JAMIOULX, BELGIUM (JANUARY 15, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF JAMIOULX PRISON WHERE SUSPECT BELIEVED TO BE HELD SIGN AT JAMIOULX PRISON SECURITY CAMERA AND SECURITY FENCE CAR BEHIND SECURITY GATE PRISON GATE CLOSING
- Embargoed: 30th January 2015 12:00
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- Location: Belgium
- Country: Belgium
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVADRSRNLDRDCT8OPWD5EQVPDGWI
- Story Text: Belgian authorities have detained a man for arms dealing and are investigating whether he supplied one of the Islamist gunmen involved in the killing 17 people in Paris last week, prosecutors said on Thursday (January 15).
Belgian media reported that a man had handed himself in to police in the southern city of Charleroi on Tuesday (January 13), saying he had been in touch with Amedy Coulibaly, the militant who took hostages in a Jewish supermarket in the French capital and was later killed by security forces.
According to the reports, the man said that he swindled Coulibaly in a car sale, but police later found evidence that the two were negotiating the sale of ammunition for a 7.62 mm caliber firearm.
Bullets of this caliber are needed for the Tokarev pistol that Coulibaly used in his attack on the supermarket in Paris, where he killed four hostages, and possibly in the shooting and injuring of a jogger two days earlier.
"The man is being held by the judge in Charleroi on suspicion of arms dealing," a spokesman for Belgium's federal prosecution said. "Further investigations will have to show whether there is a link with the events in Paris," he added. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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