Both Khayari and his fellow escapee, Ashraf Sekkaki, were identified as members of a gang responsible for carrying out four armed robberies since the escape in Antwerp province. In one of the robberies, in Oud-Turnhout, the robbers are thought to have got away with more than €50,000. As Flanders Today went to press, it was reported that Khayari's brother and another man had also been arrested.