Terrorism
No all-clear after Anti-Terror operation
Top Terrorist Abdeslam and four other Suspects apprehended, a large-scale operation, the Belgian police stopped: However, Brussels remains in the alert. The threat is more large, said French head of state Hollande.
Five Terror Suspects were detained in Brussels – including the alleged Paris bomber Abdeslam
Despite the arrest of the alleged Mastermind of the Paris attacks, France’s President, François Hollande, is not clear. “Everywhere, in Belgium as in France, the threat is very large,” he said on Friday evening at a press conference with the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in Brussels, where Hollande due to the EU summit already was. Overall, the number of the accomplices and helpers was much higher than initially thought. “We are faced with extremely large networks”, the French head of state. The investigation should be continued. All Stakeholders needed to be identified.
Belgium’s Prime Michel and the French head of state Hollande to announce: We have him – but the threat remains
Abdeslam had been involved “in any Form” in the attacks in November, Hollande is secure. The 26-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent is said to have played a key role in the implementation of the Paris attacks. He organizes rental cars and hotel rooms for the commands and several of the assassins to the site of the attack hazards. Then, with the aid of accomplices, he managed to apparently escape to Belgium. As for the attacks on the music club Bataclan, Bars and Restaurants, as well as the Stade de France on 13. November last year killed 130 people.
Anti-Terror operation stopped five arrests
The inhabitants of Molenbeek, meanwhile, can breathe a sigh of relief: The several-day-long Anti-Terror operation in the Brussels district, is now finished. The police have lifted the road blocks on Friday night. Only the building in which the arrested terror suspects, Salah Abdeslam had stopped, remains cordoned off.
In addition to Abdeslam, were arrested during the RAID, according to the prosecution, four more persons. Including a family, in the case of Abdeslam shelter found, according to a spokesman.
The roadblocks in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, according to the days-long Anti-Terror operation canceled
Salah Abdeslam was one of the most wanted men in Europe. For months, the police was hot on his heels, couldn’t get him to grasp, however. Finger on a glass searches in the Brussels suburb had fingerprints on Tuesday at a house Forest gave the decisive hint. In the case of the police in connection with the Paris attacks, a man was killed and four officers have been injured.
Abdeslam quickly to France to deliver
France now expects a rapid delivery of Abdeslam. For Saturday, the head of state, Hollande announced a meeting of the French defense Council, to discuss the current state of the investigation into the attacks. The authorities hope to gain new insights into the organization of the attacks, and possible backers.
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