One gunman was killed and four officers, including a French policewoman were injured, but who were counter-terrorism investigators looking for in Tuesday’s raid?
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“We had a lot of luck”, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said. A day care center and schools were placed on lockdown and workers at an Audi plant located nearby were ordered to remain inside the facility by management.
Brussels, headquarters of the European Union as well as Western military alliance North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, was entirely locked down for days shortly after the November 13 Paris attacks for fear of a major incident there. The sources said French police were part of that operation.
He was found with an Isis flag and extremist material, Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday. Details of the latest operation will be released in an upcoming news conference.
The dead suspect has not yet been identified.
Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said people started running when gunshots were heard. The person who brought him to hospital fled as local police arrived.
A French police source told AFP the operation was focused on the associates of one, or several, of 11 people who have been charged in Belgium in connection with the attacks.
One or more people opened fire on police as they opened a door of an apartment.
He was described by authorities this morning as an Algerian national who was in the country illegally. The December bloodbath’s alleged ringleader was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Brussels citizen. Abaaoud lived in Brussels. Bilal Hadi, another opponent, was believed to have existed for some time within the Forest community. Hadfi killed himself outside a stadium in a northern suburb in Paris.
Although the police were armed and wearing bullet-proof jackets, they had not anticipated resistance when they raided the address. The Forest community was secured down following the original rush of gunfire for five hours.
Four police officers sustained minor injuries during the shooting in Rue du Dries in the borough of Forest in the Belgian capital, police said.
The police came under gunfire from “heavy weapons”.
Belgian police set up a security perimeter at Saint Denis – Sint-Denijsplaats during an anti-terror …
Most of the suspects either died during the attacks or were killed in later police raids. Hooded police officers with body armor were seen in the area as spectators started to gather.
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Belgian and German authorities examining an alleged link using the Nov assaults in London stormed a Brussels home Wednesday after being dismissed upon, and murdered a suspect equipped having a Kalashnikov assault gun, regulators said. The terrorist organization the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria claimed responsibility for the violence, with Brussels considered to be a hub for the plotters.
