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Brussels cancels New Year’s Eve fireworks display due to extremist attack threat

“They were caught before they had the opportunity to take action”, the Turkish prosecutor’s office said.

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The police station was near Molenbeek, where anti-terror raids had been taking place.


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Officials are investigating accounts of an alcohol-fueled sex party at a police station in November, while Brussels was almost shut down because of fears of a terrorist attack.

Meanwhile in Turkey, security services say they have thwarted a major plot to attack celebrations in Ankara. No weapons or explosives were found.

“We are forced to cancel considering the risk analysis done by the Crisis Center”, he told the French-language RTBF network.

The two are reported to belong to a motorbike club called the Kamikaze Riders. Authorities found during investigations that several of the perpetrators were reportedly based in Belgium.

Belgian authorities have so far detained nine men in the case including four accused of helping Abdeslam get away from the crime scenes.

“They have barbecues, go riding”, Lahlali said.

“It’s possible some members, some individuals, have a personal agenda, but not the bigger part of the group”, the lawyer said.

Officials said the plot disclosed Tuesday was not directly linked to last month’s Paris attacks that left 130 dead.

In Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul, 15,000 police will be deployed to ensure security over the New Year, the city’s deputy police security chief Zafer Baybaba said.

A fireworks display was scheduled in the Place de Brouckere, a high-profile public square in the heart of Brussels.

Belgium’s decision came after Russian authorities closed off Red Square in Moscow, a popular spot to celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Are you anxious about New Year’s Eve events being marred by terrorism?

In the six weeks since the Paris terrorist attacks, law-enforcement agencies in Brussels, where most of the attackers lived or had ties, have been denounced as slow, unresponsive, disorganized, even incompetent. & Monday., both suspected of plotting an attack in Brussels on New Yr’s Eve, federal prosecutors stated.

A double suicide bombing killed more than 100 people in Ankara in October.

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The source close to the investigation said prosecutors were trying to determine whether the alleged plotters had direct links to the Islamic State group. Turkey has blamed IS, but no group has said it carried out the attack. It’s also a known fact that Islamic preachers have been recruiting in USA prisons for years.

A Belgian special forces police officer patrols a street during a police raid in central Brussels Belgium