Brussels suspect freed for lack of evidence

IBelgium releases a suspect in last week’s Brussels attacks due to lack of evidence, prosecutors say.

Belgian national Faycal Cheffou was arrested for a suspected role in the March 22 suicide bombings at the city’s airport, which, along with a similar attack at a metro station shortly afterwards, killed 35 people and wounded hundreds more.

The announcement of his release comes hours after Belgian police disseminate new video footage of a third suspect whose bomb failed to go off in the Brussels airport bombings.

The footage shows the man wearing a hat and white jacket pushing a trolley with a large bag through the departure hall, next to suicide bombers Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui. Prosecutors had been working on the assumption that Cheffou is the so-called “man in the hat.”

— AFP