“According to the first elements of the investigation, it seems that a theater in Brussels was particularly and specifically the target of an action planned in a few weeks,” local authorities said.
Four men arrested for suspicion of preparing a jihadist attack in Brussels “in a few weeks” they aimed at a concert hallthe Belgian federal prosecutor’s office announced this Monday.
“According to the first elements of the investigation, it seems that a performance hall of Brussels was particularly and concretely the target of an action planned in a few weeks,” the prosecutor’s office announced.
The four men – being that three of them are minors “at the end of adolescence” – were detained and interrogated on Sunday, on suspicion of at least planning an attack.
No weapons or explosives were found.
According to police sources, no weapons or explosives were found in the residences of the four detainees, but cell phones and laptop computers were confiscated for analysis.
The four suspects exchange messages “disturbing enough for us to intervene”a source from the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said this Monday.
Meanwhile, a source close to the case pointed out that the idea of attacking a concert hall came from the three minors. In principle it would be Botanique cultural complex, in Brusselswhich has various rooms, a gallery and a museum.
Brussels suffered two jihadist attacks
Brussels was the scene of two simultaneous jihadist attacks in March 2016 that left some 32 people dead, with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at the airport in Zaventem and in a central subway station.
The cell responsible for these attacks was the same one that organized and carried out attacks in Paris and its periphery in November 2015, with 130 deadand which included an attack on the concert house Bataclan.
Source: Ambito
