Official: Paris suspect may have been planning terrorist acts from Brussels

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Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam may have been planning new terrorist acts from Brussels, The Associated Press reports Belgium's foreign minister said Sunday.

"We found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations, and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brussels," Didier Reynders said.

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.