Mostafa Beggar (left), the manager at Transports Figorifiques, with Marco, a taxi driver who helped victims at the scene of terror attacks
Brahim El Bakraoui and two other men ordered a taxi to take them from their hide out in the Schaerbeek district to Zaventem airport on Tuesday morning, before they committed one of the worst terrorist atrocities in Belgium's history.
Comment: The taxi driver, Kim Sengupta (of Moroccan descent), has apparently identified the other two men as Brahim's brother Khalid and Faycal Cheffou (the hatted man in the CCTV footage), who has been arrested and charged with "terrorist murders".
As soon as the driver heard about the attacks, he drove straight to a police station in central Brussels to tell the authorities every detail he could remember about the three men, including their hideout, a 5th floor apartment in Rue Max Roos.
Comment: After receiving the tip from Sengupta, police reportedly raided the apartment (No 4), where they found "an Isis flag, a bomb packed with nails and screws, detonators and enough chemicals to make 15kg of Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP), the explosive used in last November's Paris attacks."
But now the driver fears reprisals from Isis and their sympathisers for handing over such crucial information to the police.
The driver, who was dispatched by Taxis Verts, arrived in a Volkswagen Kandi and thought it odd that his passengers refused to let him touch their luggage, insisting that they load it into the car boot themselves.
They had more five pieces of luggage which is more than he expected three people to have. After telling them that their bags would not all fit in his car, the three men were angry at having to leave some of their cases behind.
"He said he took three men to the airport, but they had five bags," a colleague of the driver told The Telegraph. "He wanted to help put the bags in the boot but they wouldn't let him. He didn't say anything at the time but he thought it was odd."
Comment: The above isn't clear. The men had 5 large bags, but were forced to leave 2 behind because the cab wasn't big enough.
As he drove, the passengers discussed America and problems in the world. He smelled ammonia during the journey and when he dropped the men off at the airport noticed their bags had traces of white powder on them.
Comment: According to Sengupta, the third man (Cheffou?) "raged during the journey about what he saw as America's aggression towards Islam."
The driver's colleague said: "After he heard the news about the explosions, he thought maybe it was them. He told police their address, what they looked like, it is dangerous for him. He is scared, he has a wife and children.
"Lots of taxi drivers are scared of reprisals. Most of the taxi driver in Brussels are Muslim, about 80 per cent, so they are scared about helping the police and being seen as bad Muslims. Many people work for Da'esh and drivers worry they will be attacked."
The friend said that the driver also regrets not acting on his suspicions about the passengers earlier. "It is difficult for him He drove them to the airport so now he thinks, 'perhaps I could have stopped them'," he said.
Shortly after 8.00am, two explosions ripped through the departure hall at Belgium's Zaventem airport. The two airport bombs as well as a suicide bombing at Maelbeek metro station in the city centre, which prosecutors said was carried out by El Bakraoui's brother Khalid, killed at least 31 people and injured 270.
A bespectacled man wearing a cream jacket and black hat ran out of the airport terminal, federal prosecutors said, before a third suitcase bomb exploded in the departures area as bomb disposal experts were clearing the area, causing no casualties. The man, captured on film with the suicide bombers, is being sought by police.
Mostafa Beggar, the manager at Transports Figorifiques who owns the car, said that vehicle was seized by police is currently being forensically analysed.
"He is not working at the moment, he is resting with his family," Mr Beggar said. " It is a serious situation and he is scared. It is thanks to him that the police found where the terrorists live. I am proud of him and what he has done."
Michel Petre, president at Taxis Verts, which ordered the taxi to be dispatched to the terrorists' address, said: "He did his duty and we are thankful to him. He is resting now, that is what he has requested. We don't know when he will be back at work."
This information certainly is miraculous and fortuitous. I'm wondering if Belgians are now starting to suspect that there is more to this than meets the eye. Or, if fortuitously for the individuals behind it, if they have begun to suspect everybody...