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| Frenchman suspected in planning terror attack arrested |
| 2016-03-28 |
[CBSNEWS] Dutch police juggedDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a 32-year-old Frenchie in the port city of Rotterdam on Sunday at the request of French authorities who suspect him of "involvement in planning a terror attack," prosecutors said. Residents were evacuated from homes near addresses on two streets that were raided Sunday by anti-terror police, who also took three other men into custody. French officials requested the arrest Friday after the suspect emerged during an investigation, according to a statement from the Dutch national prosecutor's office. The suspect was allegedly involved in a plot disrupted by police in the Gay Paree region last week, the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said. Another Frenchie, Reda Kriket, was detained Thursday in that plot and remains in jug. An official with the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said there is no sign of a link at this stage between Kriket's purported plot and a network behind attacks in Brussels and Gay Paree in recent months. The Gay Paree official and Dutch prosecutors' Spokesman Wim de Bruin declined to give more details about the alleged plot. The suspect, whose identity was not released, is expected to be extradited to La Belle France soon. Three other men were detained in Sunday's raids; two with Algerian backgrounds and a third man whose identity could not immediately be established. De Bruin said the three were held in relation to a Dutch investigation, but he gave no further details. The raids came with Europe on high alert following last week's deadly suicide kabooms in Brussels. Belgian riot police clashed Sunday with hundreds of right-wing hooligans at a temporary shrine honoring victims of the Brussels suicide kabooms, as Sherlocks launched fresh anti-terror raids, taking four more people into custody. Police used water cannon when scuffles broke out in front of the Bourse, which has become a symbolic rallying point for people to pay their respects to those who died in Tuesday's attacks. Black clad men carrying an anti-ISIS banner with an expletive on it trampled parts of the shrine, shouting Nazi slogans. Ten were arrested and two coppers injured. "We had 340 hooligans from different football clubs who came to Brussels and we knew for sure that they would create some trouble," Police Commissioner Christian De Coninck said. "It was a very difficult police operation because lots of families with kids were here." Much like in La Belle France after the Gay Paree attacks, public interest in fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... far-right nationalistic populism has went kaboom!in popularity. Vocativ reports Facebook likes for Vlaams Belang, the right-wing populist party from Flanders, has surged more than 3,000 percent. Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur expressed his disgust, with Belgium still in mourning over the suicide kabooms at Brussels airport and subway, which killed at least 31 people and injured some 270. Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, said Sunday morning's raids were linked a "federal case regarding terrorism" but did not specify whether it had any links to the March 22 attacks. |
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