Belgium was on high alert Friday after two suspected jihadists were killed in a police raid, while German and French police made fresh arrests to put Europe on edge a week after the Islamist attacks in Paris. In Belgium, officials said they had averted "imminent" large-scale attacks on police targets after raiding a terror cell in the eastern town of Verviers, near the German border, whose members had recently come back from Syria. Prime Minister Charles Michel raised Belgium's terror alert to its second highest level, security was tightened and Jewish schools in the port city of Antwerp closed Friday due to fears of further trouble. The raid and a ****** of related search operations across Belgium were **w "over" but authorities were **w seeking to "exploit the information" they had obtained, Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said.
01-17-2015, 04:30 PM
Belgian terror raid puts Europe on high alert
Belgium was on high alert Friday after two suspected jihadists were killed in a police raid, while German and French police made fresh arrests to put Europe on edge a week after the Islamist attacks in Paris. In Belgium, officials said they had averted "imminent" large-scale attacks on police targets after raiding a terror cell in the eastern town of Verviers, near the German border, whose members had recently come back from Syria. Prime Minister Charles Michel raised Belgium's terror alert to its second highest level, security was tightened and Jewish schools in the port city of Antwerp closed Friday due to fears of further trouble. The raid and a ****** of related search operations across Belgium were **w "over" but authorities were **w seeking to "exploit the information" they had obtained, Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said.
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