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Belgian Police Arrest Two in Anti-Terror Raids, More Jungle Illegals Evacuated in Paris | ||||
2016-09-17 | ||||
[AnNahar] Belgian authorities on Friday detained two people for questioning following anti-terror raids in the capital Brussels and southeastern Belgium, the federal prosecutor's office said. Police searched two homes in the Haren and Schaarbeek districts of Brussels and another in the city of Liege in the French-speaking Wallonia region, the office said in a statement. "Two persons were arrested and will be interrogated by the investigators," it said, adding a judge will decide later whether or not to detain the pair further. A judge specializing in terrorism cases ordered the raids "in connection with an ongoing federal investigation into the activities of a terrorist group," the statement said without elaborating. However, the Belgian television station RTBF said the two arrested are a 28-year-old man and his female companion.
The suspect had in the past been linked to criminal but not terrorist activities, it added.
France has received only a tiny proportion of the million-plus migrants who have crossed into Europe in the last 18 months, with many refugees seeing it mainly as a transit country to other destinations. Friday's operation was the latest of more than 20 such evacuations over the past year. Housing Minister Emmanuelle Cosse, who was at the scene, said around 1,500 people were at the camp, which was earlier evacuated on August 17, when 700 people were removed. "There are a lot of families with children, more than usual. They will obviously be looked after," Cosse told AFP. On July 22, around 2,500 migrants were evacuated from another camp in northern Paris in the largest operation of its kind in the city. Many of those who land in Paris are bound for the port of Calais on the Channel coast, where they hope to stow away on a truck crossing to Britain. The squalid camp of tents and makeshift shelters in Calais, known as The Jungle, is home to some 7,000 migrants but charities say the number might be as high as 10,000 after an influx this summer. | ||||
Posted by:trailing wife |
#3 Why Britain? Perhaps in part because of Britain's strong presence in Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan back in the day ... ? Anybody who lay across or along side lines of communication needed by British East India Company and/or British Army and Navy received more or less British attention. Memories are long. The Fraud's first public act was to insult Great Britain ... i.e., birthing or not, he considered himself a champion of Kenya against Great Britain ... and other things, but that specific in amongst the rest. Vengeance drives the typical Hollywood script, but in life it is suicidal. |
Posted by: TopRev 2016-09-17 14:41 |
#2 Why Britain? Why did Willie Sutton rob banks? |
Posted by: Pappy 2016-09-17 11:24 |
#1 Why Britain? It's cool and wet. The south of France would be much nicer. Or Italy. Or Lebanon. |
Posted by: Bobby 2016-09-17 09:38 |