Brussels: Brussels airport suicide bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui left a rushed will in a trash can saying he did not know what to do after police were hunting for him, the federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
Bakraoui’s will said he was “in a rush”, I don’t know what to do, hunted everywhere, no longer safe” and “I don’t want to end up in a cell next to him”, Frederic van Leeuw said at a press conference.
That appeared to be a reference to Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who is reportedly linked to Bakraoui, and who is in custody in Belgium after being captured last week.
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Four people carried out coordinated attacks at Brussels airport and a metro station on March 22 that left 31 dead and 300 wounded.
Two brothers, Ibrahim El Bakraoui and his brother Khalid, were identified as suicide bombers — one at Zaventem airport and one at Maalbeek metro station.
In this image provided by the Belgian Federal Police in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, a man suspected of taking part in the attacks at Belgium's Zaventem Airport and are being sought by police pushes a trolley in the airport terminal. The man has been the identified by the Federal Prosecutors office on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 as Ibrahim El Bakraoui. — Belgian Federal Police via AP
Najim Laachraoui, 24, was identified as the second airport bomber and is believed to have made bombs for the November rampage in the French capital.
A third person seen on airport surveillance footage wearing a white jacket is the subject of a police manhunt after he fled the scene when his explosive-packed suitcases did not detonate.
The Bakraoui brothers had been sought by police for links to Abdeslam prior to the Brussels attacks.
Belgian television said Khalid had rented an apartment in Brussels last week under a false name where Abdeslam's fingerprints were found after a bloody police raid.
He is also linked to another apartment in southern Belgium that Abdeslam and other Daesh terrorists used before the Paris attacks.
DNA from the second airport suicide bomber Laachraoui, 24, was found at an apartment in Brussels where bomb-making equipment and one of Abdeslam's fingerprints had been found in December.
His DNA was also found on explosives used in the Paris attacks.
Prosecutors have said Laachraoui "travelled to Syria in February 2013," and was registered under a false name at the border between Austria and Hungary last September.
He was travelling with Abdeslam and Mohamed Belkaid, who was killed in a Brussels raid three days before Abdeslam was captured. Belkaid is believed to have provided logistical support to the Paris attackers.
