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The November 2015 Paris attacks were co-ordinated from Belgium and Brussels was locked down for five days to allow the police to search for suspects with the aid of the military. [14] On 18 March 2016, four days before the Brussels bombings, Salah Abdeslam and another suspect in the Paris attacks were captured after two anti-terrorist raids in ...
After the Paris attacks that killed 130 people in 2015 and the Brussels bombings of 2016 that killed 32 civilians, soldiers were on patrol in Brussels to increase security. [1] The Molenbeek municipality, where many of the perpetrators of the 2016 bombings lived, underwent a large-scale administrative check-up, with over 20,000 inhabitants ...
The 1979 Brussels bombing was an attack carried out by volunteers belonging to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army band on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt, the central square of Brussels, Belgium, on 28 August 1979. [1] The bombing injured seven bandsmen and eleven civilians, [2] and caused extensive damage. [1]
A third man caught on CCTV footage with two bombers who attacked Brussels airport on Tuesday was named as Faycal Cheffou in Belgian media on Saturday.
Those behind the March bombings in Brussels planned to hit France a second time but struck closer to home as investigators made arrests among key suspects.
Police released new images Thursday showing the so-called 'man in white' behind the Brussels Airport bombing and appealed for help from the public.
Khalid El Bakraoui (12 January 1989 – 22 March 2016) was a Belgian-Moroccan national and the younger brother of Ibrahim El Bakraoui. Like his brother, he had been involved in violent crime and had spent time in prison. He carried out the attack on a train leaving Maelbeek metro station during the Brussels bombings. [28] [29]
STORY: Belgium has launched its largest ever criminal trial, more than six years on from the 2016 terror attacks.Ten men will stand trial, accused of involvement in a ...