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| Belgian police stop bus after passenger reports hearing talk of planned terror attack |
| 2024-01-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] Vehicle coming from La Belle France pulled over, three people arrested and all passengers questioned. Belgian police stopped a bus coming from La Belle France on Thursday after a passenger reported a conversation about a possible terror attack, officials said. The bus, run by the company Flixbus and operating a service between the northern French city of Lille and Brussels, was halted in the town of Wetteren, next to Ghent, a spokeswoman for the East Flanders prosecutors’ office told AFP. Police arrested three passengers and were to question all those on board to determine if the suspect conversation was substantiated, she said. A front man for Justice Minister Paul Van Tigchelt said the passenger had overheard a suspected "terrorist conversation" and alerted police who stopped the bus and inspected it. The federal prosecutors’ office said it was not treating the incident as a terrorist case for the moment. Belgium’s official Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis said it was not raising the national terrorism alert level above its current status of "serious." Belgian police and security services are on heightened vigilance after the country faced recent Islamist attacks. |
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