Six arrested in Belgium and one in Paris as anti-terror police launch raids – with French officials saying they have foiled an imminent attack
Six people have been detained in Brussels in connection with terror attacks
Another person has been arrested in anti-terror raid in Paris suburb tonight
Frenchman was held after officials foiled a terror plot in ‘advanced stages’
By EMMA GLANFIELD
DailyMail.com
24 March 2016
Seven people have been arrested in Belgium and Paris tonight after masked anti-terror police carried out a string of raids across Europe in connection with the Brussels massacres and a new terror plot.
Armed police swooped on properties in the Schaerbeek and Jette districts of Brussels and arrested a total of six people, who are thought to be connected to Tuesday’s airport and Metro bombings.
Gunfire, grenades and explosions were all reportedly heard as police conducted the raids tonight.
Meanwhile, a Frenchman was arrested during an anti-terror raid in the northern Paris suburb of Argenteuil over a planned terrorist attack which was in the ‘advanced stages’, officials said.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the man detained could be part of a high level terror network that was planning to strike on French soil. They ‘planned to hit our country’, he said.
But Mr Cazeneuve said there was currently no ‘tangible’ link between the man arrested in Paris and Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels.
It is understood the man detained in Paris had been under police surveillance for ‘quite some time’.
‘The arrest is the result intricate work carried out over the last few weeks by intelligence services,’ said Mr Cazeneuve.
He confirmed the man arrested was of French nationality and was ‘involved in the plot at a high level’ and was ‘involved in a terrorist network that was ready to attack France.’
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