2023-05-04 16:34:09
The suspects are “mostly of Chechen origin”. “The target of the planned attack has not yet been precisely determined,” according to the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office.
By Le Figaro with AFP
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The Belgian police arrested Thursday, May 4 seven people presented as “strong supporters” of the group Islamic State (EI) and suspected of preparing an attack in Belgium, announced the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office. Nine searches were carried out in the west of the country, in particular in Roeselare, Ostend, Ghent and Menin, a town bordering France, leading to these arrests.
The suspects aremostly of Chechen descent», et «suspected of planning a terrorist attack in Belgium». «Several scenarios have been mentioned, the target of the planned attack has not yet been precisely determined.“, added the prosecution in a press release. The police operation, carried out with the reinforcement of special units of the federal police, is part of an investigation led by an anti-terrorism judge from West Flanders, who might decide to place the suspects in preventive detention following their hearing. .
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An Islamic State target
«The potential charges are attempted terrorist assassination, participation in the activities of a terrorist group and preparation of a terrorist attack.“, indicates the parquet floor. “Almost allThe suspects (among whom are women, according to a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor’s office) are of Chechen origin and three of them have “also Belgian nationality». Ils «belong to a group of staunch IS supporters“, is it underlined from the same source.
Belgium has already been the target of the Islamic State group, which in 2016 claimed responsibility for the suicide attacks perpetrated at the airport and in the metro of the Belgian capital (32 dead on March 22, 2016). These attacks were committed by the jihadist cell of the IS already at the origin of those committed on November 13, 2015 in France (130 dead).
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