Among the various arrests following the Brussels attacks (carried out not only in Belgium, but also in Salerno by the Digos, for example), is Abderahmane Ameroud, wounded in the legs in a firefight at a tram stop near Place Meiser, in the Schaerbeek neighborhood. According to investigators, he is linked to the foiled attack in Argenteuil, a northern suburb of Paris. Of Algerian origin, Ameroud was also well known to law enforcement, having been sentenced in 2005 to seven years in prison for complicity in the assassination of Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, leader of the fight against the Taliban.
