BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities announced Saturday that they had charged a man in connection with this week’s suicide bombings, saying they believe he participated in the attacks. Two others were also charged with terrorism-related offenses.

The man, identified by a European official as Fayçal Cheffou, appeared before a judge after he was detained Thursday night while sitting in a car in front of the Belgian prosecutor’s office.

Belgian security officials have been seeking a man captured in an airport surveillance video Tuesday, minutes before dual suicide blasts hit. The images show three men walking together, but only two are believed to have died in the blasts. The third has been believed to be at-large after depositing an explosives-laden suitcase in the departures terminal.

Prosecutors did not say whether Cheffou — whom they identified only as “Fayçal C.” — was the third man. Belgium’s Le Soir newspaper reported that he was, citing an unidentified source, who said that a taxi driver who took the attackers to the airport the morning of the attack positively identified him.

Belgian media reported that Cheffou has in the past identified himself as “an independent journalist,” with a history of advocacy on behalf of radical Islamist causes. He was reportedly once arrested for trying to recruit refugees in a public park, and later received an order to stay away. (read more)