BRUSSELS - Brussels is possible escaped another attack. Belgian police arrested the night of Friday to Saturday 12 terror suspects and says about 'concrete evidence' to have a new terrorist act was imminent.
Raids on 40 sites, 12 people arrested
The suspects wanted to strike this weekend in Brussels, possibly during the European Championship match that the Belgian national football team Saturday afternoon (15:00) playing in Bordeaux, the Flemish channel VTM reported on the authority of initiates. Most of the suspects arrested in and around Brussels.
The police arrested some of the suspects, according to the Walloon broadcaster RTBF for a few days in the holes. They would have belonged to a terrorist cell part which prepared attacks and had the means to carry them out. The police did at forty places search.Weapons or explosives were not found.
Acquaintances El Bakraoui
There is no direct link would be with the attacks of 22 March in Brussels. Among the suspects are acquaintances or terrorist Mohammed Abrini and the brothers El Bakraoui.
The arrests would have nothing to do with the threat of an attack on four leaders of the Belgian government.
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