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a Belgian flag with a black ribbon hanging from a window of a residential building next to a police station in Brussels on March 23, 2016, in mourning for jihadist attacks (afp_tickers)
the security forces carried out the Friday night “dozens” of raids and arrested twelve people in 16 municipalities in Belgium as part of a terrorism case requiring “immediate intervention” in a context of threats of new attacks.
“the elements gathered in the instruction requiring immediate intervention” he said in a statement, without elaborating, the federal prosecutor’s office, which centralises counterterrorism investigations in Belgium.
According to the private TV channel VTM, the threat is related to the game of the European Football Championship the Belgian football team should play Saturday in Bordeaux (France) at 13H00 GMT against Ireland.
“40 people were arrested for questioning and 12 of them were deprived of their liberty. The judge will decide in the coming hours if kept in detention, “said the prosecutor.
The records passed” without incident “in the Brussels region (municipalities of Brussels, Molenbeek, Schaerbeek, Anderlecht, Koekelberg , Berchem-Sainte Agathe, Evere, Forest, Watermael-Boitsfort, Ganshoren) in Wallonia (south, Fleurus, Tubize and Liege) and Flanders (north, Zaventem, Ninove, Wemmel).
We recorded a total of 152 garages closed, but “weapons or explosives” was not found, he said.
at 10H00 GMT was to begin a meeting of the National Security Council chaired by Prime Minister Charles Michel, sources government.
in the agglomeration of Brussels, the researchers involved in Molenbeek, Schaerbeek and Forest, three communes where they had lived for the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris (130 dead in November 2015) and Brussels (32 dead March 22 last).
in Flanders the operation took place in Zaventem, where the airport is located in Brussels, where two suicide bombers blew themselves up on 22 March.
“we can not give more information about the seized objects or the identity of the detainees,” prosecutors said.
on Wednesday, the Belgian press had revealed that the police had received reports that some fighters the jihadist group Islamic State (EI) had left Syria to carry out attacks in Europe.
“Those people apparently were separated into two groups, one for Belgium and one for France, to commit attacks. According to this information, these people already had the necessary weapons and action could be imminent, “stated a police circular issued by the Belgian daily La Dernière Heure.
However, the coordinating body for analysis the terrorist threat (OCAM) had relativized the content of the circular.
This information “not contextualized have not, as such, no direct impact on the level of the current threat,” said OCAM.
on Wednesday, the alert level was 3, which means a “possible and credible threat” in a scale of 4.
the protection of Belgians was reinforced, said this . Saturday AFP a source close to the authorities source
Prime Minister Charles Michel, what misnitros Foreign Didier Reynder, Interior, Jan Jambon, and Justice Koen Geens, among the thirty people whose security has been reinforced, said public television RTBF.
on Thursday, Belgian police arrested a man of 31 years for his alleged involvement in the bombings of March at the airport and Brussels metro .
the attacks of March 22 in Brussels left 32 dead, 16 at the airport and 16 station Maelbeek Metro station in Brussels’ European quarter, and more than 300 wounded.
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