Several arrests have been made in the investigation of the deadly terror attacks in Brussels, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office announced.
The March 22 attacks on Brussels' Maelbeek metro station and the city's airport killed 32 people. Ref. CNN.
Belgian prosecutors: Brussels attack suspect admits to being 'man in hat'
Mohamed Abrini, who is also a key figure in the terror attacks in Paris in November, told authorities he is the elusive "Man in the hat" seen on surveillance video leaving Brussels Airport minutes before the attack last month. He was arrested Friday, a day after authorities released several videos showing the suspect walking through Brussels streets and appealed to the public for information on his whereabouts. The March 22 bombings at an airport and downtown subway station killed 32 people. Ref. USAToday.
Congratulations goes out to the Belgium authorities on speedily solving this BUT they need to do better with their intelligence as it shouldn't have happened in the first place. As I understand it they received warnings before about an imminent threat.
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Belgian police on Friday arrested two men in connection with an anti-terrorism case, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said.
"Both are suspected of planning a terrorist attack somewhere in Belgium," the prosecutor's office said.
"For the time being there is no connection with the terrorist attacks" on March 22 at the national airport and the metro station in Brussels. Ref. CNN.
Belgian police stop attempted car-ramming attack in Antwerp :
"A vehicle with French plates has tried to drive at high speed into the Meir [shopping street] so that pedestrians had to jump aside," Antwerp police chief Serge Muyters told a news conference. Ref. Source 3c.