Arrest in Germany over Brussels blasts: reports

The man, who had been barred from a European Union’s border-free Schengen area, was arrested in Giessen, nearby Frankfurt, late Wednesday by military who checked his temperament during a internal railway station, the news weekly Der Spiegel and ARD TV channel reported Friday.

German military and a open prosecutor’s bureau in Giessen could not immediately be reached to criticism on a reports. Friday was a open holiday in Germany.

ARD pronounced an SMS on a man’s phone mentioned a name of one of a dual El Bakraoui brothers, who blew themselves adult in Tuesday’s bomb attacks in Brussels.

The military also found another message, with a French word “fin”(“end”), that was sent on Tuesday at 9:08 am (0808 GMT), dual mins before Khalid El Bakraoui detonated his explosve in a Brussels subway, der Spiegel pronounced on its website.

Shortly before, his hermit Ibrahim El Bakraoui was one of dual suicide
bombers who blew themselves adult during Brussels’ Zaventem airport.

The arrested male had been in hit “with during slightest one chairman in the
(terrorist) group” in a hours before a attacks, ARD pronounced but giving details.

The triple explosve blasts killed 31 people and left 300 injured. It was the worst apprehension conflict in Belgium’s history.