Hungary: Paris Fugitive Recruited Men Amid Budapest Migrants

Salah Abdeslam, a fugitive suspected in the deadly attacks in Paris , was at the main Budapest train station before mid-September and left with men who had been traveling amid a wave of asylum-seekers trying to enter Europe, Hungarian officials said Thursday. Janos Lazar, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, said at a news conference Thursday that the Hungarian secret services had confirmed information about Abdeslam's travels they had received from foreign agencies. According to Lazar, the Paris fugitive was at the Keleti Railway terminal in Budapest, where he recruited young men who were refusing to register with Hungarian authorities, and later left the country with them. In Belgium on Thursday, the federal prosecutor's office said a French citizen identified only as Samir Z. was detained at Brussels national airport as he was seeking to fly to Morocco.