Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam extradited from Belgium

Belgian authorities arraigned Salah Abdeslam last week during a shoot-out in the Forest area of Brussels in which four police were wounded, three days before he was arrested on 18th March after four months on the run.

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

Some 130 people were killed and dozens wounded in co-ordinated attacks carried out by Daesh, formerly referred to as ISIS, in Paris on 13th November.

The federal prosecutor said Salah Abdeslam had been "surrendered to the French authorities this morning in execution of the European Arrest Warrant issued by France on 19th March 2016."

It is not clear where he has been taken, although it is known that he was transferred recently from prison in Bruges to the high-security jail at Beveren, near Antwerp.