ISIS bomb maker ‘worked at Brussels Airport for FIVE YEARS’ before launching suicide attack as it emerges hidden prayer room was found at terminal ‘where radicalised staff prayed in secret’

From the Daily Mail:

An ISIS terrorist who blew himself up at Brussels airport had worked at the terminal for five years before the attack, it has been claimed.   

Najim Laachraoui, one of two suicide bombers who targeted the airport on March 22, was already known to have worked at the European Parliament in the city several years ago.

It has now been claimed that the jihadist was working at the terminal through a temp agency for five years until 2012.

A report also claims that a hidden prayer room was found at Brussels Airport shortly before the atrocity, ‘where radicalised staff would meet to pray in secret’. 

Laachraoui, thought to have been the bomb-maker for the terror attacks in Paris last November, launched a suicide attack at Brussels airport on March 22 in coordinated attacks that also struck a metro station in the city, killing 32 people overall. 

For five years until 2012, Laachraoui ‘worked… at Brussels airport’, according to Belgium’s VTM reported, adding that he had been recruited by a temp agency.

It did not provide details about the kind of work Laachraoui was to have carried out there, but said that airport staff are usually subject to a security check before being given access badges. There has been no official confirmation of the report.

The report also said a hidden prayer room had been discovered at the terminal shortly before the attacks, ‘where radicalised staff would meet to pray in secret’.

The airport shut the prayer room down at the request of police, VTM reported, adding that investigators have since drawn up a list of ‘at least 50 radicalised airport employees’. 

Traces of Laachraoui’s DNA have been found at a Brussels apartment where the suicide belts for the Brussels attacks were made.

The 24-year-old one-time electrical engineering student is also suspected of being the bomb-maker for last November’s Paris attacks that left 130 people dead.

Both attacks have been claimed by ISIS.