Story highlights Explosives found in apartment thought to have been rented by suspect in Argenteuil, France, mayor says

Suspect Reda Kriket was previously convicted of being part of a jihadist network

He was found guilty along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, ringleader of the Paris terror attacks

(CNN) A man arrested this week by French police for allegedly plotting an attack on the country has been linked by authorities in Belgium to the suspected ringleader of last year's Paris terror attacks, according to Belgian court documents.

Reda Kriket, 34, was previously found guilty in absentia by a Belgian court and sentenced to 10 years in prison for being part of a jihadist network, the documents state.

Also convicted in that July 2015 decision was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged ringleader of the November terror attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people. Abaaoud was killed in a police raid on a Paris-area apartment days after the Paris attacks.

Kriket was arrested Thursday in Boulogne-Billancourt, just west of Paris, and that led to a police raid that night on an apartment in Argenteuil, also near the French capital, authorities said.

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