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[DailyMail, where America gets its news]
- The district of Brussels is known to be rife with ISIS sympathizers
- Salah Abdeslam was found there after masterminding the Paris attacks
- Perpetrators of the 2004 Madrid bombings and an attack in Belgium lived there
- One of the raids is believed to have been carried out on the street where Abdeslam was arrested
| Yesterday at 18:44 Pancho Snore8829 posted the following in response to the tweet on the subject found by Bright Pebbles: |
Belgian police detained three people for questioning after carrying out house searches in Brussels that were related to an anti-terrorism investigation, prosecutors said on Saturday.
The house searches were carried out in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, which gained international attention when locals with links to Syria took part in the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
"The searches were carried out as part of an investigation by Brussels prosecutors," a spokeswoman for Brussels prosecutors said. "While nothing was found, three people were taken in for questioning."
The area where the searches took place was closed off to traffic as special police forces with machine guns moved in, a Reuters journalist said.
Belgian authorities have released three people who were detained in a series of anti-terror raids in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, where some of the Gay Paree and Brussels attackers lived or traveled.
Ine Van Wymersch, spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor’s office, said Sunday that the three were questioned, then released during the night.
No weapons or explosives were found during the weekend raids. Van Wymersch declined to provide more details on the investigation.
| At least they were able to clone cell phones and such for further investigation, but this smacks of security theater. |
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