Police Making Arrests in Belgium’s Anti-Terror Operation

One suspect was detained during an anti-terrorist police operation in the city of Charleroi south of Brussels, local media reported.

Another police operation is currently conducted in the eastern Belgian city of Liege, according to the RTBF television.

The channel did not report any details of the operations after the Belgian Federal Police asked local media and social networks’ users not to disclose the exact locations in which anti-terror operations are conducted.

Local media also reported that Belgian Police detained six suspects during the searches in the center of Brussels, related to a terrorist threat. According to the Derniere Heure newspaper, one of the suspects was injured during the arrest.

Salah Abdeslam, believed to be the only extremist to survive the Paris attacks, was not among those detained, the media reported.

Belgian police is conducting an unprecedented anti-terrorist operation across several districts of Brussels, searching homes and arresting a number of suspects, local media reported.

According to previous reports, the operation was being conducted in the central district of Brussels, with officers blocking streets and asking local residents to stay away from windows.

According to the RTBF television, the police have now expanded their operations to the Molenbeek and the Etterbeek districts. The whole area of the immigrant Molebeek district was cordoned off, the media said.

On Saturday, the authorities raised the terror alert level in Brussels to level 4, the highest possible, in the wake of attacks in Paris earlier this month.

The Belgian police carried out a series of anti-terrorist operations detaining a number of people in Brussels, after it was revealed one of the Paris attackers had lived there. At least 16 suspects have been arrested, according to media reports.

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