Belgium: The operation was launched to counter “preparation for a terrorist attack”, prosecutors say.
Brussels:
One person was killed on Wednesday in a shootout with Belgian police during raids on a suspected far-right group, prosecutors said.
The operation, aimed at a dozen addresses around the northern city of Antwerp, was launched to counter “the preparation of a terrorist attack”.
In a statement, prosecutors said “many weapons and ammunition” were seized in the raids. Some weapons were legally registered, they said.
During one raid, “a gunfight took place between the police and one of several people in a building. This person died.”
The statement did not provide further details about the shooting or the target group.
Last weekend, four Dutch suspects were arrested for what prosecutors described as a plan to kidnap Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne.
It is not known whether that incident was related to Wednesday’s raids on addresses in Antwerp and its suburbs, the nearby village of Kasterlee and the city of Ghent.
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