4 arrests in raids linked to Brussels bomb bid
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POLICE in Belgium have 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 said the four were picked up during searches in the Molenbeek neighborhood, as well as in Anderlecht and Koekelberg. The attacker in Tuesday’s incident 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 said the four suspects allegedly linked to the latest incident in Brussels were “taken in for thorough questioning” and that an investigating judge would decide whether to keep them in custody. Authorities didn’t say whether anything had been seized in the raids and declined to provide further details.
The raids are among several launched since Tuesday’s attempted attack in which the man blew up a device that didn’t fully detonate. He was then fatally shot by soldiers after charging at them while shouting “Allahu akbar,” the Arabic phrase for “God is great.” No one else was hurt.
Belgium has been on high alert since suicide bombers killed 32 people at the capital’s airport and a subway station last year.
Authorities said the quick shooting of the attacker averted fatalities. He had been trying to detonate a larger nail bomb.
“It was clear he wanted to cause much more damage than what happened,” federal prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said.
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