Tracked down by a parking ticket: Terror suspects are arrested in Brussels after their rental car was given a fine - as a second getaway car full of guns is found abandoned in Paris suburbs
Anti-terror police arrested several suspects in Belgium after a discarded parking ticket found in a rental car used by the terrorists in Paris led police to Brussels. Belgian authorities swooped on the men in the St Jans Molenbeek area of Brussels at 5pm UK time yesterday - less than 19 hours after at least 129 innocent people lost their lives in France.
Footage shows armed officers swarm on at least one man and force him to kneel down (pictured) as they detain him on a wall as shoppers look on. The arrests came after a grey VW Polo car with Belgian number plates was seen close to the Bataclan theatre in Paris on Friday night - where 89 people were gunned down. Intelligence officers traced the car - one of two vehicles used in the attacks - and intercepted it as it crossed the border from France to Belgium on Saturday. Officers found a parking discarded in the vehicle which had been issued by authorities in the Molenbeek district, prompting police to launch a number of raids across the community and arrest 'several' suspects. It came as police revealed today they had found the other vehicle used in the terror attacks - a black Seat Leon - abandoned in the Montreuil area of France. It was found to be full of a cache of weapons including three Kalashnikovs.
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