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Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2016 19:33:48 GMT
A man carrying a meat cleaver and wearing a fake explosive vest has been shot dead as he tried to get into a police station in Paris today. The incident is being treated as a suspected terror attack after the man was reportedly carrying a piece of paper with an ISIS flag and a claim of responsibility in Arabic. It came on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, with France’s chief prosector confirming the incident was at the exact same time as the terror attack from last year. Francois Hollande was finishing a speech to French police to mark the anniversary of the attack on the satirical magazine which left two officers dead at the time. Witnesses say the man had attempted to enter the police station waving a knife in Rue de la Goutte d’Or in the 18th arrondissement at 11.30am today.
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Post by Admin on Mar 21, 2016 19:24:18 GMT
"We got him" said Theo Francken, Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, on Twitter. The Federal Prosecutor's office has also confirmed his arrest, public broadcaster RTBF said. Other media reported two people had been arrested, though France's President Francois Hollande said there was no confirmation of the detention of Salah Abdeslam, the 26-year-old French suspect from Brussels. Television footage showed masked, black-clad security forces guarding a street in the capital and reporters at the scene described white smoke rising from a rooftop. A police spokeswoman said an operation was ongoing and could not give further details.
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2016 19:20:15 GMT
On March 22, bombings ripped apart the airport and a subway station in Brussels, killing dozens of people less than six months after the deadly attacks in Paris. The investigation into the Paris attacks has dovetailed into the investigation of what went wrong in Brussels and seemingly linked the two tragedies. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for both the Paris attacks and the attacks at Brussels Airport and one an hour later on one of the city's metro trains, near the station of Maelbeek. Most of the victims were killed in the train blast. So far, officials have only identified two of the apparently four suspects, and they are the Bakraoui brothers, both Belgian citizens. Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, blew himself up in a subway station about an hour after Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, blew himself up at the airport. Ibrahim was accompanied by at least two other men to the airport, one of whom is believed to have blown himself up, and another of whom fled. Neither of them have been identified definitively by officials, nor have investigators been clear how many accomplices of the bombers they have identified. Khalid rented the apartment in the Forest neighborhood of the Belgian capital, using a false identity, that was raided by police last Friday in an operation that led to the arrest of top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam. Police are searching for 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, suspected of making the bombs for the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks in Paris and yesterday's carnage in Brussels. Traveling under the false name Soufiane Kayal, he was documented driving from Hungary into Austria in September in a car driven by Abdeslam. Police have been conducting raids across Belgium since the attacks, but officials have been tight lipped about who or what exactly they're searching for.
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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2016 19:18:42 GMT
The security guard was found dead in his home in Charleroi, a post-industrial region known for its derelict factories and slag heaps. Didier Prospero, who worked for US-owned security company G4S, was discovered shot dead in his bathroom on Thursday night. Belgian daily Derniere Heure (DH) reported that Prospero's children found him, and that his dog had also been shot. His security pass was missing but deactivated after his body was found, DH said. A police spokesperson was unable to provide VICE News with further information about the case due to the ongoing investigation. Belgian prosecutors told DH that they had not found any correlation between the guard's murder and terrorism. Nevertheless, the timing of his death days after the bombings in Brussels fueled concerns that militants could be trying to get their hands on materials to build a radioactive dirty bomb.
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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2016 19:13:52 GMT
The "man in the hat" who accompanied the two suicide bombers who detonated their explosives at Brussels Airport on March 22, and who was seen in a surveillance video walking away from the airport, has been identified as Mohamed Abrini, the Belgian prosecutor's office said in a statement on Saturday. Abrini is also suspected of providing logistical help for the men who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. He was detained on Friday in Brussels after a nearly five-month manhunt and was charged on Saturday with participation in the activities of a terrorist group and terrorist murder. On Saturday evening, the Belgian authorities announced a major breakthrough: Abrini confessed that he was the man in the hat and thus had also been directly involved in the attacks at Brussels Airport, which killed 16 people and the two bombers.
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