Belgium arrests eight people on suspicion of terrorist attack
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced on Tuesday that it had arrested eight people on suspicion of a terrorist attack during two ongoing investigations on the previous evening.
The prosecutor’s statement mentioned that the potential targets of these individuals have not yet been identified at this stage of the investigation. According to a judicial source, the detainees are young individuals who have become highly radicalized from the jihadist movement. This source added that there are connections between the two cases and that a planned attack was intended to take place.