Two arrested on suspicion of plotting attack in Belgium
Belgian police arrested two men suspected of planning an attack in Belgium following raids on Friday night ordered by an anti-terror judge.
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According to a spokesman for the federal prosecutors, the two men, identified as Noureddine H. and his brother Hamza H., were arrested following house searches in Mons and Liege.
“Both are suspected of planning a terrorist attack somewhere in Belgium,” the spokesman said.
No weapons or explosives were found in the raids ordered by the judge specialising in counter-terror cases, it said.
A judge will review the arrests of the brothers later Saturday and decide whether to keep them in custody.
The prosecutor's office said there was for now no connection with the bombings on March 22 at Brussels airport and a metro station near the European Union headquarters that left 32 people dead.
Belgium has remained on high alert following the bombings in Brussels as well as the wave of deadly attacks in the last month in France and Germany.
Belgian authorities last month charged two men with terrorist offences amid reports of a planned attack on a Euro 2016 fanzone in central Brussels.
Belgium then beefed up security for its July 21 national day celebrations after the truck attack that killed 84 people in the French city of Nice on Bastille Day, July 14.
Belgian authorities had previously anticipated a possible truck-style attack before the carnage in Nice.
- with AFP
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