“We’re not finished with terrorism”, he said in a New Year message that also defended constitutional changes underpinning a crackdown on militant groups after November’s deadly Islamist attacks in Paris that killed 130 peole.
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On Dec. 26, Vienna police said a “friendly” intelligence service had warned European capitals of the possibility of a shooting or bomb attack before New Year, prompting police across the continent to increase security measures.
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As Belgium arrests terrorists linked to the ISIS Paris attacks, the city of Brussels is cancelling plans for New Year’s Eve fireworks displays.
“Together with the interior minister, we’ve made a decision to not have the celebrations on Thursday evening”, Yvan Mayeur, mayor of Brussels, said in a statement.
Shaken by a year of militant attacks, Europeans will ring in 2016 in subdued fashion on Friday, with soldiers on the streets of Paris, a heightened police presence at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, and silence across the vast cobbled emptiness of Moscow’s Red Square.
During that period the whole of the Brussels metro network was shut and events such as football matches were cancelled, while people in the city were told to avoid busy public places.
An armed police man patrols at the Grand Place in Brussels on Tuesday.
New Year’s Eve fireworks illuminate Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge and Opera House during the traditional early family fireworks show.
In 2013 one of the club’s founders, Abdelouafi Elouassaki, was arrested after providing material support to two of his brothers, who were fighting in Syria for jihadist groups.
Despite threats, however, some cities kept celebrations as planned.
The others who were interrogated were released Thursday.
In Turkey, meanwhile, officials said two Islamic State suspects, reportedly both Turks, were planning to stage suicide bombings in the centre of the capital Ankara, which is expected to be packed with revellers on the night of December 31.
Ever since the terror attacks in Paris past year – which also involved radical Muslims from Belgium – Brussels has been on high alert.
The city’s main fireworks display has been cancelled over the feared plot.
“The people of Paris and France need this symbolic passage into the New Year”, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told the weekly Journal du Dimanche.
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BRUSSELS – Belgian police on Thursday detained six more people over an alleged New Year attack plot in Brussels and arrested a tenth suspect over last month’s jihadist massacre in Paris.
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In Britain, Scotland Yard said there will be around 3,000 officers across central London in what is reported to be an unprecedented anti-terror security effort. He spent about five years in prison, officials said.
