At other schools in the region, officials sent parents letters and emails explaining security measures being taken under police orders, like limiting access to the school and not allowing children to play or gather in large spaces like courtyards.
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(AP Photo/Michael Probst). A Belgian police officer guards the building of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015.
In any case, she said she had been pleased that schools were to reopen Wednesday. Security at the upscale school is normally already very tight since Belgium’s Princess Eleonore is among the students.
About half of all subway stations in Brussels were operating for the first time since the weekend.
They said Abrini was seen on video surveillance at a gas station in Ressons, France, driving a Renault Clio that was later used in the attacks.
As far as Abdeslam, a suicide vest found in a garbage bin could give investigators new clues about his whereabouts and his possible role in the attacks.
As millions of Americans prepare to travel for the US Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, Obama acknowledged fear among Americans of a Paris-style attack in the United States.
But the Belgian capital remains on the highest alert, with hundreds of armed police and soldiers on patrol.
Belgian authorities released the name and photo of another suspect, saying they’re searching for him in connection with the Paris attacks. An global arrest warrant has also been issued for Abdeslam.
Henry Samuel in Paris writes that the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks returned to the Bataclan concert venue while a police operation to kill the remaining gunmen was still underway, the Paris prosecutor has revealed.
Another brother, Mohamed, who was briefly detained by French authorities after the attacks, appealed on French media Wednesday for his fugitive sibling to surrender to police.
On Monday, the French military said its planes began conducting airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Iraq from the eastern Mediterranean, where the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is now deployed. A large New Year’s party at an exhibition center in Brussels has been canceled, the event’s organizers said.
The late-night raids continued Saturday and Sunday, and 16 people were arrested. No explosives or firearms were seized.
He refused to elaborate what kind of attacks the government believed had been planned.
She says, “When ambulances arrive, we have to see from where they come, who is in it. Really as a precaution”.
The coordinated attacks, in which 130 people were killed, prompted France to declare a national state of emergency and to step up air strikes in Syria on Islamic State, the militant group that has claimed responsibility.
Police also searched a house in a village near the airport town of Charleroi.
Some 200 extra soldiers guarded Brussels metro stations and an additional 300 police have been drafted in from elsewhere to protect schools in the city, causing knock-on effects.
Despite the threat, regular life began to resume in Brussels on Wednesday as schools reopened and underground train services partially resumed.
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Information obtained on November 19 suggested “that the two attackers – Abaaoud and the man we found by his side in the apartment – were planning an attack consisting of blowing themselves up at La Defense either on Wednesday the 18th or Thursday the 19th”, Molins said.
