‘Exact path’ of Paris suspect unknown, says prosecutor

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Authorities do not know the &&num;8220&semi;exact path&&num;8221&semi; taken by Salah Abdeslam&comma; a key suspect in the Paris attacks&comma; a Belgian federal prosecutor said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Abdeslam&comma; suspected as a logistician in the attacks that killed 130 people&comma; was arrested on Friday after a four-month manhunt in the same neighbourhood in Brussels where he grew up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Belgian prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw told reporters at a news conference in Brussels that investigators hope to find out the details of Abdeslam&&num;8217&semi;s actions between the November 13 attacks and his arrest&comma; &&num;8220&semi;if he decides to tell us&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Abdeslam&comma; 26&comma; a French citizen who grew up in Brussels&&num;8217&semi; Molenbeek neighbourhood&comma; slipped through police fingers on multiple occasions&comma; including the day after the attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was interviewed three times on Saturday&comma; the day after his capture &&num;8211&semi; once by prosecutors and twice by an investigating judge &&num;8211&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;wasn&&num;8217&semi;t in great shape&&num;8221&semi; because he had been shot in the leg by police during his capture&comma; Mr Van Leeuw said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Belgian prosecutors appealed to the public Monday for information about a man who allegedly travelled to Hungary last year with the top suspect in the Paris attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The federal prosecutor&&num;8217&semi;s office said in a statement they are seeking details about 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui&comma; who is said to have travelled to Syria in February 2013&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It said Laachraoui was checked by guards at the Austria-Hungary border while driving in a Mercedes with Abdeslam and one other person&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Laachraoui is said to have rented a house under the name of Soufiane Kayal in the Belgian town of Auvelais that was allegedly used as a safe house&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prosecutors said traces of his DNA were found there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Laachraoui is &&num;8220&semi;someone who must explain himself&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the prosecutor said&comma; stressing that &&num;8220&semi;clues&&num;8221&semi; do not amount to proof&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Investigators have been working on numerous pieces of the puzzle in the many-tentacled Paris attacks case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We are far from putting the puzzle together&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Mr Van Leeuw&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anti-terrorism prosecutors in Belgium and France have worked non-stop on hundreds of cases &&num;8211&semi; 325 cases last year in Belgium and near 60 new cases so far this year&comma; Mr Van Leeuw said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His French counterpart&comma; Francois Molins&comma; who was also at the news conference&comma; said his team has 244 anti-terror cases in progress concerning 772 individuals either charged or sought&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;&lpar;It&&num;8217&semi;s clear&rpar; we have a general threat&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Van Leeuw said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Abdeslam has a court hearing on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>France has requested his extradition but Abdeslam&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer says his client will fight the request&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5211a8ce2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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