Belgian TV says Abdeslam planned to copy Paris attacks in Brussels

Citing no source, VRT said investigators believed Abdeslam and two others, one of them a man arrested with him on Friday, planned to use assault rifles and riot guns to cause mass casualties in Brussels while others would blow themselves up.

“The terrorists were planning the same scenario as in Paris, only it partially failed,” VRT said, two days after three suicide bombers killed at least 31 people at Brussels airport and on the city’s metro.