Brussels airport bomber Najim Laachraoui identified as Isis jailer of French hostages in Syria
Laachraoui is believed to have had the technical training that could mean he was the armourer of the operation
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Your support makes all the difference.Brussels airport bomber Najim Laachraoui was one of the men who held four French journalists captive for months in Syria, the lawyer of two of the former hostages told Reuters on Friday.
Najim Laachraoui, a 25 year-old Belgian, was one of the two bombers who blew themselves up at Brussels' airport on 22 March, investigators have said.
Thirty-two people were killed in the attacks on the airport and a metro station.
"I can confirm that he was the jailer of my clients," Marie-Laure Ingouf, a lawyer for two French journalists freed in April 2014 after spending 10 months as hostages in Syria, told Reuters.
An engineering sciences student who dropped out of university, Laachraoui is believed to have had the technical training that could mean he was the armourer of the operation.
Le Parisien daily on Friday quoted intelligence sources as saying Laachraoui was in charge of interrogating the hostages and was less brutal to them than Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman who in May 2014 killed four people in an attack on Brussels' Jewish Museum.
One of the four former French hostages, Nicolas Henin, had in September 2014 said that he recognized Nemmouche as one of his Syria jailers.
Reuters
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