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| Brussels Cancels New Year's Festivities over Terror Threat, Detains New Suspect | |
| 2015-12-31 | |
| [AnNahar] The annual New Year's Eve festivities and fireworks in the heart of Brussels have been canceled for security reasons, the mayor announced on Wednesday, as the Belgian capital remains on high alert over a possible terror threat. "Unfortunately we have been forced to cancel the fireworks and all that was planned for tomorrow (Thursday) evening and that would have brought a lot of people together in the center of Brussels, following a risk analysis by the crisis center," mayor Yvan Mayeur told Belgian broadcaster RTBF. Last year, some 100,000 people turned out to watch the traditional New Year's Eve fireworks display at the Place de Brouckere. Mayeur said in the current circumstances it wasn't possible to "guarantee that we can check everyone coming to the event". "It's better not to take any risks," he added. The Belgian capital, home to the headquarters of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , has been on high alert since the November 13 gun and suicide kaboom attacks in Gay Paree that left 130 dead. A key suspect in the Gay Paree attacks, Belgian-born runaway Salah Abdeslam, is believed to have fled to Brussels in the hours after the massacre, which was claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group. The Belgian authorities have so far detained nine men in the case including four accused of helping Abdeslam get away from the scene of the crimes. Earlier Wednesday, Belgian police held a man for questioning following a new search in the troubled Brussels immigrant neighborhood of Molenbeek in connection with the Gay Paree attacks. Earlier this week, Belgian police tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two people suspected of plotting attacks in Brussels during New Year festivities, with officers seizing military-style training uniforms, computer hardware and Islamic State propaganda material.
Belgian police detained six people during house searches in Brussels on Thursday as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to carry out an attack in the capital on New Year's Eve. Police carried out searches at six locations in the Belgian capital and one just outside the city, seizing computers, mobile phones and equipment for airsoft, a sport involving guns that shoot non-lethal plastic pellets. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Well, it's 2016 in Israel. Good night |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-31 18:59 |
| #7 Happy New Year from Germany. 45 minutes ago Munich was put on high serious dire this time we mean it terror alert, railway stations evacuated and people told to stay away from public places. Yeah right. On New Years Eve. Of course people are celebrating and ignoring. Just in case something happens, we have stuff to shoot back tonight. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-12-31 18:29 |
| #6 Had to run a little 'relay' for that, g(r)om. "This video contains content from LatmaTV. It is not available in your country." Our PC 'minders' must be at work. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-12-31 17:50 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-31 12:42 |
| #4 So this is what it means to have a multi-cultural society? We all sacrifice our freedom and our traditions so that these people can live among us? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-12-31 11:14 |
| #3 Does mean the party is officially over for Europe? |
| Posted by: regular joe 2015-12-31 10:41 |
| #2 So who won? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-12-31 08:02 |
| #1 "It's better not to take any risks," he added. "Everyone should stay home in 2016 ... and lock your doors" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-12-31 07:04 |