Suspect in November Paris attacks extradited to France

Salah Abdeslam, who is suspected of playing a major part in terrorist attacks in Paris by Islamist militants, has been extradited to France from Belgium. This was revealed by prosecutors in both countries on Wednesday. The November attacks left 130 people dead.

Abdeslam, 26, was captured in Brussels on March 18 after a four-month manhunt. He was due to appear before French judges later on Wednesday. 

"Salah Abdeslam has been handed over to the French authorities this morning," Belgium's federal prosecutors said in a statement.

He was captured four days before separate suicide bomb attacks by Islamist militants at Brussels international airport and on a metro train left 32 people dead.

Abdeslam had told investigators that he had planned the Nov. 13 bombing and shooting attacks in Paris and had planned to blow himself up at a sports stadium there but changed his mind at the last minute. He is suspected of having rented two cars used to transport the attackers to, and around, the French capital.

Abdeslam's elder brother Brahim, with whom he used to run a bar in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, was among the Paris suicide bombers.