Brussels canceled its traditional annual year-end celebrations including a fireworks display and other events on Wednesday due to the threat of a New Year’s terror plot, the Netherlands news agency BMO News reported.
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On Nov. 21, after the Paris attacks that killed 130 and injured hundreds, the terrorist alert level for all of the Belgian capital was temporarily raised to its maximum level.
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A Belgium counterterrorism official was quoted by CNN as saying that the suspected plot appeared to have been inspired, but not directed, by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group.
Evidently, the recent arrests of two men suspected of planning one such attack in the city did not assuage safety concerns.
He told broadcaster RTBF: “Unfortunately we have been forced to cancel the fireworks and all that was planned for tomorrow (Thursday) evening and that would have brought a lot of people together in the centre of Brussels”.
Earlier this week, Belgian police arrested two people suspected of plotting attacks in Brussels during New Year festivities, with officers seizing military-style training uniforms, computer hardware and Islamic State propaganda material.
Belgian media said the search took place in Rue Delaunoy in Molenbeek, the district which is home to Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam and which has served as a haven for jihadists in the past.
Both suspects are Turkish nationals.
Turkey has been on high security alert since October 10 when two suicide bombers ripped through a crowd of peace activists in Ankara, killing 103 people in the worst attack in modern Turkey’s history.
The two men had already carried out surveillance on potential targets.
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People walk through a light snowstorm on December 30, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey.
