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| Belgian police arrest 13 in anti-terror raids |
| 2022-02-09 |
| [IsraelTimes] More than 100 Belgian police have raided multiple addresses around the port city of Antwerp, detaining 13 people suspected of links to a jihadist group. The operation was launched under the authority of anti-terror magistrates as part of a broader investigation, federal prosecutors said in a statement. "An Antwerp group within the Salafist jihadist milieu has come under scrutiny and the aim of this operation was to further map out the group’s activities," it says. "Thirteen people were deprived of their liberty and will appear in the course of the day before the investigating judge, who will decide on a possible arrest." The Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp have been singled out in the past as alleged rear bases for international jihadist extremism. Antwerp was the base of the jihad group Sharia4Belgium ...the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia. Its spokesman, Fouad Belkacem, was sentenced to 12 years in prison... , which was founded in 2010, and several of its members went on to fight for hardline groups in Syria. Related: Antwerp: 2022-02-03 ISPR says attacks repulsed in Balochistan's Noshki and Panjgur; 4 terrorists killed Antwerp: 2022-02-02 'Brit' gangster executed in cold blood on just another day in Antwerp: How tidal wave of drug money is rotting the cocaine capital of Europe from the inside out with customs, cops, city all corrupted or compromised Antwerp: 2021-10-27 More than 1,000 Belgian police officers carry out dozens of raids and arrests in a sweeping operation targeting cocaine smugglers |
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