Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur decided Wednesday to cancel all fireworks displays and other public festivities planned for New Year’s Eve, local media reported.
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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel expressed solidarity with the “delicate, hard decision” taken, adding in an interview with RTBF that it was the “correct” choice.
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Belgian police arrested two people, Tuesday, on suspicion of planning to carry out attacks in Brussels on New Year’s eve.
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The prosecutor’s office said the arrests are not linked to November’s deadly Paris terror attacks, which involved militants who had been living in Belgium and at least one who entered Europe as a “refugee” with a Syrian passport.
Police found military clothing and Islamic State propaganda and computer material which investigators are examining, but no weapons or explosives.
The two suspects are due to appear in court on Thursday when a judge will determine whether to keep them in custody.
Police were investigating an alleged plot that targeted high-profile sites in Brussels during end-of-the-year celebrations, according to the prosecutor’s office.
New Year fireworks and festivities have been cancelled in the Belgian capital Brussels because of an alert.
The streets of Kizilay and other central areas of Ankara, which is Turkey’s largest city after Istanbul, are typically crowded on the evening of December 31 as revelers gather to celebrate the arrival of a new year.
Those plots, coupled with recent terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., left some cities around the world, and even entire countries, jittery about tonight’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. Only one of the men have been identified and the unidentified male has reportedly been charged with “playing a lead role in the activities of a terrorist group and recruiting for terrorist acts”.
And a key suspect in the Paris attacks, Belgian-born fugitive Salah Abdeslam, is believed to have fled to Brussels in the hours after the massacre, which was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
In Belgium, an investigation was continuing into what authorities characterized as a “serious threat” of holiday season attacks directed at police, soldiers and popular attractions in the capital city of Brussels.
Several residents of Brussels – some of who had joined ISIS in Syria – participated in the Paris attacks.
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Six people were initially questioned after house searches but four of them were released.
