The development comes days after police in Brussels arrested two people who were suspected of planning the New Year’s Eve attack; despite those arrests, the city has canceled plans for its annual fireworks show.
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In at least two capitals – Ankara and Brussels – officials said they had disrupted plots to strike at New Year’s celebrations that stretch into Friday.
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As Belgium’s capital city, New Year’s Eve is celebrated in style in Brussels, with the streets packed with both locals and tourists.
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Paris also canceled its main New Year’s fireworks display, but the normal gathering at the Champs-Élysées will go ahead as planned as will a shortened version of a typical program at the Arc de Triomphe.
The suspect was “charged with terrorist murder and participation at the activities of a terrorist organization”, according to a statement from the federal prosecutor’s office in Brussels.
The announcement came as Brussels – home to the EU and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – and other European capitals were on high alert over the threat of attacks during the New Year holiday.
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said that no weapons or explosives were found in Wednesday’s raid, but around 10 cellphones were seized.
Moscow’s Red Square, traditionally a place where people gather to ring in the new year, was closed on New Year’s Eve, while Vienna beefed up security. It was also reported Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in the November Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, was a close family friend of Bazarouj.
Brussels has been on high alert since it emerged that several of the attackers involved in the Paris carnage on November 13 had links to the Belgian capital.
Paris, like Brussels, also canceled a fireworks display. Paris prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said a text message was sent to a phone in Belgium shortly before ISIS gunmen attacked the Bataclan theater in Paris. The state-run Anadolu Agency, quoting police and judiciary officials, said the potential bombing sites included areas near bars and a shopping mall.
New York City is one of the cities taking the most precautions.
More than 100,000 police are on duty over New Year’s in France.
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Belgian authorities have arrested a number of people on suspicion of involvement in those attacks, which have been claimed by Islamic State.
