A suspect in the Paris and Brussels terror attacks has been identified by Belgian police as having been among a group of "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) extremists who burned a Jordanian pilot alive in a cage, AFP reported.
Osama Krayem, a Swede of Syrian origin, has been held in Belgium since 2016 and could face war crimes charges over the murder of Moaz al-Kasasbeh, whose death was filmed and put online in an incident that came to symbolise some of the worst excesses of ISIS.
Krayem is suspected of playing a key role in the cell behind the November 2015 attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people, and Brussels, which left 32 people dead. Both were claimed by ISIS.
Now investigators have linked him to the killing of al-Kasasbeh, who was captured when his plane came down in an ISIS-held part of Syria in December 2014.
"We have been able to establish that he was there," a source close to the Belgian probe told AFP on Friday, saying Krayem could be prosecuted for a "crime against humanity".
Krayem, like other members of the Paris-Brussels cell, travelled to fight for ISIS in Syria in 2014 before apparently hiding among migrants in order to return to Europe from Syria in 2015.
According to Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure, Belgian police have identified Krayem as actively taking part in the killing.
