Lawyers for the main suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, said that they will no longer defend him, speaking during a TV interview on Wednesday.
A French court charged Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over his role in the November 2015 carnage that left 130 dead, just hours after his extradition from Belgium.
Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was charged with attempted murder over a deadly shootout with police in Brussels a week before the suicide bombings in the Belgian capital.
Three people arrested in Brussels in connection with the November Paris attacks have been released without charge, Belgian prosecutors said.
The Brussels-based Islamic State jihadists behind the Paris attacks planned a fresh strike in France but targeted the Belgian capital instead as police closed in, the federal prosecutor said.
The arrest of Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini in raids linked to the Brussels airport and metro bombings on Saturday highlighted the ties between jihadists involved in Belgium and France's worst terror outrages.
Mohamed Abrini, wanted over November's Islamic State attacks in Paris, has been arrested in Brussels, Belgian public broadcaster VRT said on Friday, adding that he was probably involved in last month's Brussels bombings.
The March 22 Islamic State attacks in Brussels represented a security "failure", Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel admitted, but he rejected the notion his country was a "failed state".
Belgian judicial authorities approved the extradition to France of Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, prosecutors said, adding that a date for the transfer had not been set.
Belgian police were hunting for a "third man" filmed with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels Airport as investigators accumulated evidence that the same jihadist network was involved in the Paris attacks.
Explosions tore through the departure hall of Brussels airport on Tuesday morning killing one person and injuring several others, the Belgian news agency Belga said.
French President Francois Hollande on Monday was set to hold his first formal meeting with victims of the November 13 attacks in Paris, three days after Belgian police captured key suspect Saleh Abdeslam.
