Thread: Brussels attacks: 6 detained in raids

Brussels attacks: 6 detained in raids

By Mick Krever, Catherine E. Shoichet andGreg Botelho, CNN
Updated 8:25 PM ET, Thu March 24, 2016 | Video Source: CNN

Brussels, Belgium (CNN)Police detained six people in raids Thursday night as investigators race to uncover the network behind this week's terror attacks in the Belgian capital.

The Belgian federal prosecutor's office didn't provide details about who had been detained in the Brussels raids, why they had been apprehended or whether they will face charges.

"It will be decided tomorrow if these people will remain in custody," the office said in a statement released late Thursday.

Three of the people were apprehended in front of the federal prosecutor's office, public broadcaster RTBF reported. Two others were taken into custody in Brussels' Jette neighborhood. And one person was detained in a different part of the capital, according to RTBF.

So far, authorities have said they believe five menplayed a part in Tuesday's bombings in Belgium thatkilled 31 people and injured 330. Three of the attackers are dead. Two of them could still be on the loose.

Investigators are combing over evidence from surveillance footage and the explosives stash they seized from an apparent hideaway in a suburb.

Any clue, any lead, any witness could be critical in the race to stop the next terrorist attack on European soil.

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Khalid El Bakraoui, one of the terrorists who bombed a train near the Maelbeek metro station, is dead.

Authorities believe a second unidentified person was also involved in that attack, a senior Belgian security source told CNN. But investigators don't know where that suspect is -- or whether he's dead or alive.

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Surveillance footage shows the man holding a large bag at the station, according to Belgian public broadcaster RTBF. It's not clear if he was among the at least 20 killed in that blast, RTBF said.

Authorities have released a grainy image of another suspect who they believe is on the run.




That man, they say, shown in photographs wearing a black hat, was one of three attackers at Brussels Airport. Authorities say he planted a bomb at the airport and left. The other two men in the photographs are believed to be the suicide bombers.

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France arrests man in 'advanced stages' of terror attack plot

Associated Press

A Frenchman in the "advanced stages" of a plot to attack the country was arrested Thursday northwest of Paris, and security forces locked down the area during a major search, France's interior minister said.

Bernard Cazeneuve said there were no links "at this stage" between the plot and the attacks against Brussels this week or Paris in November.

Cazeneuve said bomb squads were on site. The raid took place in Argenteuil, on the northern outskirts of the capital. He said the person arrested was implicated at a "high level" in the plot, but offered no details.

Witnesses told France's i-Tele network that the immediate area had been locked down and that residents were unable to return home.

France has been on high alert since the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and injured hundreds. Cazeneuve said there had been 75 arrests since the beginning of the year, and 28 suspects had been jailed.

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