In August 2015, Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest. Two further arrest warrants were issued for El Bakraoui on 11 December 2015, one international and one European. Both were issued by a Paris judge investigating the November 2015 Paris attacks, because El Bakraoui, using false documents, rented the Charleroi house where fingerprints of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of those attacks, as well as an involved suicide bomber, Bilal Hadfi, were found.