Belgium has ordered its army into the streets and “anti-terror” raids across Western Europe have netted dozens of suspects as authorities rushed to thwart more attacks by people with links to armed groups.
French, German, Belgian and Irish police had at least 30 suspects behind bars on Friday and in Brussels, authorities said a dozen searches led to the seizure of four Kalashnikov assault rifles, hand guns and explosives.
Several police uniforms were also found, which Belgian authorities said suggested the plotters had intended to masquerade as police officers.
Belgian police arrested 13 people during a dozen raids overnight, foiling a plot to kill police officers “in public roads and in police stations”, prosecutors have said.
The arrests camafter two suspects were shot dead in a gun battle during one of the police raids in the eastern town of Verviers on Thursday night.
Five of those arrested were later charged with “participating in the activities of a terrorist group”, federal prosecutors’ spokesman Eric Van der Sijpt told AFP
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