(VOVworld)- Belgium has handed over Mohamed Abrini, the "man in the hat" bomber at Brussels airport last year, to France for questioning about the 2015 Paris attacks, federal prosecutors said.

The prosecutor's office said in a statement that in the framework of the investigation related to the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, Mohamed Abrini was surrendered to the French judicial authorities for a period of one day.

A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said that the decision is based on "mutual agreements" between the two countries.

Abrini was captured in Brussels last April over his suspected involvement in the 22 March Brussels attacks and the Paris killings, both of which were claimed by the Islamic State group.

Belgian investigators have said the Brussels airport and metro bombers who killed a total of 32 people were part of the same Brussels-based cell that orchestrated the November 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 dead.