Reports yesterday said Belgium has extradited Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to face trial in France.

He was wounded and arrested in a dramatic raid in Brussels on 18 March after four months on the run.

The 26-year-old French national was born in Brussels and lived there before the Paris attacks.

He would be held in solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in the Paris area, said Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas.

The co-ordinated attacks carried out by so-called Islamic 41State in Paris on November 13 claimed 130 lives and left dozens more severely wounded. Belgium’s federal prosecutor said Abdeslam had been surrendered to the French authorities in execution of the European Arrest Warrant issued by SarakiFrance on March 19.

He was then formally placed under arrest and taken to a Paris courtroom for questioning by judges. It is thought he will be taken to Fleury-Merogis, Europe’s biggest jail south of the capital where two of the January 2015 Paris attackers had served sentences. Abdeslam is charged in France with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist organisation.

He was also indicted by Belgian authorities last week over a shoot-out in the Forest area of Brussels in which four police were wounded, three days before he was arrested.

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