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Thursday, June 22, 2017
4 detained in raids linked to Brussels train station attack
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBelgian authorities say that police detained four people in a series of raids in Brussels linked to the failed bombing at a rail station this week by a man shouting “Allahu akbar.”
The federal prosecutor’s office says that the four were picked up during searches in the Molenbeek neighborhood, as well as in Anderlecht and Koekelberg. The attacker in Tuesday’s violence at Brussels Central Station was a 36-year-old Moroccan national also living in Molenbeek, but he wasn’t known to authorities for being involved in extremist activities.
Many of the suspects linked to attacks in Brussels and in Paris in November 2015 lived in or passed through the Molenbeek neighborhood
Prosecutors say in a statement that the four suspects allegedly linked to the latest incident in Brussels were “taken in for thorough questioning” and that an investigating judge would decide later today whether to keep them in custody. Authorities didn’t say whether anything had been seized in the raids, and declined to provide further details.
— AP
The Times of Israel Community.