Now Brussels, Belgium, is contending with a credible threat. It provided no further details, but French police reports cited by the Le Monde newspaper have said the Paris attackers were in cellphone contact with two numbers in Belgium during the night of the killings. He spent about five years in prison, officials said.
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Local authorities in Brussels have cancelled the city’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display due to security concerns.
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In Paris a New Year fireworks display has been abandoned, but the traditional gathering on the Champs-Elysees will take place amid tight security.
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In Turkey, meanwhile, officials said two Islamic State suspects, reportedly both Turks, had been planning to stage suicide bombings in the center of the capital Ankara on new Year’s Eve.
During the raids police seized computers, phones and materials for playing airsoft – a type of military simulation game in which replica weapons firing plastic pellets are used.
Later on today, a court will decide whether their stay in police custody could be extended, as had happened in the case of two other terror suspects who had been arrested earlier this week.
“We have chose to mark the New Year in a reflective manner and without fanfare”, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said.
Brussels and Paris have scrapped their fireworks displays entirely, while much of Europe will welcome 2016 in a subdued fashion.
The arrests come as cities around the world heighten security measures ahead of large-scale New Year celebrations.
“The people of Paris and France need this symbolic passage into the New Year”, said Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called New York “the best prepared city in the country to prevent terrorism and to deal with any event should it occur”.
“The threat is still there”, he said.
A security emphasis will be placed on the system’s busiest stations and popular nightlife spots, said Metro spokesman Dan Stessel.
Up to a million people are expected to attend the celebration.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said the decision to cancel Brussels’ New Year festivities had been taken “given information we have received”. Yet at the stroke of midnight the skies still lit up with pyrotechnics in Sydney, traditionally the first to host a major New Year’s bash, as crowds thronged to waterside vantage points.
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In the recent past, fireworks have caused alarm when cities were known to be under threat of a terrorist attack.
