POLICE have detained ten Islamists in Europe who are suspected of plotting an attack in Belgium, the prosecutor’s office said.
The arrests were part of “an inquiry into international jihadist terror,” a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office said.
“In total ten people suspected of preparing an attack in Belgium were arrested in Belgium, Holland and Germany,” he said.
The suspects are from Belgium, The Netherlands, Morocco and Chechnya, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The group used the extremist website Ansar Al Mujahideen.
The target of the plot was unknown.
The raid followed a months-long investigation that was launched by authorities in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp in late 2009, the office said.
The investigation focused on recruiters, would-be “jihadists” and the financing of a Chechen “terrorist organisation,” it said.
Russia has fought two full-blown wars with separatists in Muslim-majority Chechnya since 1994, which left the region devastated.
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