Paris Attack Fugitive May Have Eluded Capture by Belgian Police 2 Days After Terror Attacks

This undated file photo released Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, by French Police shows 26-year old Salah Abdeslam, who is wanted by police in connection with recent terror attacks in Paris, as police investigations continue. The notice, released on the national police Twitter account, says anyone seeing Salah Abdeslam, should consider him dangerous and call authorities immediately. The notice reads in French: “Call for witnesses – Police are hunting a suspect : Salah Abdeslam, born on Sept. 15, 1989 Brussels, Belgium. …Dangerous individual don’t intervene yourself”. (PHOTO CREDIT: Police Nationale via AP)

Fugitive Salah Abdeslam may have eluded capture two days after the Paris attacks when Belgian police waited overnight to search a Brussels house where he could have been hiding, a Belgian federal prosecutor said Thursday.

“Did he escape? Did he not escape? Nobody knows,” prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said.

Van der Sypt said police had waited until 10 a.m. on Nov. 16 to move on the house in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels because of various factors, including a Belgian law banning home searches between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. except for certain crimes.

Authorities also wanted to be certain no harm would come to the 200 to 300 worshippers who attend early morning prayers at a nearby mosque, as well as children on their way to school, the prosecutor said.

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SOURCE: ABC News, John-Thor Dahlburg