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A nationwide anti-terrorism police operation involved 14 house searches across the country on Thursday and resulted in seven arrests, according to the federal public prosecutor's office.
Belgium’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has denounced "archaic work processes" at the Brussels prosecutor's office in the case of last year’s shooting involving three Swedish football supporters.
Ocam, Belgium’s federal body for combatting terrorism, has deemed a potential threat towards all of the country’s secondary schools "unlikely", though threat level three remains in place.
A planned terror attack thwarted by police “concretely” targeted the Botanique concert venue in Brussels, according to the federal prosecutor’s office, reports RTBF.
The three people arrested Thursday after Belgian police stopped a Flixbus travelling between Lille and Brussels have been released, confirmed the East Flanders prosecutor’s office, reports RTBF.
The terror threat level in Belgium will remain at level 3, meaning there is "a serious and probable threat", according to the country’s prime minister and minister of justice and home affairs.
Federal police have been called in to help secure Jewish sites in Antwerp and Brussels at the request of Belgium’s interior minister, Annelies Verlinden.
Belgium’s terror threat level will remain at 3 for some time, with the increased vigilance due to the attack in Brussels and also the conflict between Israel and Hamas, according to Gert Vercauter
The Brussels public prosecutor's office is taking action in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack in order to ensure the mistakes made regarding Abdesalem Lassoued's case are not repeated.
