Anti-terrorist operation in Belgium: suspects still on the run

Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-06 23:09:45|Editor: yan
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BRUSSELS, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Following an anti-terrorist investigation that uncovered weapons in the Anderlecht neighborhood of Brussels on Wednesday, the Belgian Federal Court is looking for one or several suspects whose terrorism preparations have gone quite far already, local media reported on Thursday.

A lot of weapons were found, but also police and security officers' uniforms, as well as detonation devices, after a series of searches in Anderlecht, one of the 19 municipalities of Brussels.

So far, four suspects have been arrested in Belgium and one in France, but investigators are still looking for one or more men who have ties with the suspects who were arrested Wednesday. They are two brothers who have links with the Brussels motorbike club Kamikaze Riders. This gang has some radicalized members; two of them have already been convicted for terrorism.

Security services fear that the behavior of the wanted suspects could be unpredictable.

The body analyzing the terrorist threat in Belgium, OCAD, has so far kept the alert level at three.

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