Belgium has prevented six attacks over the past two years, a senior police official says Tuesday, with the country still a prominent target for jihadist assaults.
“I can announce… that over two years, since November 2014 precisely, we have been able to foil at least six attacks,” Eric Jacobs, head of judicial police in Brussels, says in an interview with the daily La Derniere Heure, without offering further details.
Jacobs says Belgium has been fighting terrorism for 20 years but with population growing in the Belgian capital, the number of groups has multiplied.
“There are more than 200 nationalities in the capital. There is not only Daesh (an acronym for Islamic State). There are other radical movements,” he says.
— AFP
King Philippe Belgium and Queen Mathilde of Belgium mourn after laying down flowers in the area of the explosion at the Maalbeek subway station in Brussels, on March 23, 2016. (AFP/BELGA/THIERRY ROGE)
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