{"id":342282,"date":"2024-03-05T11:47:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/05\/sventato-il-bataclan-belga\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:31:21","slug":"they-were-preparing-an-assault-on-a-concert-hall-belgian-bataclan-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/05\/they-were-preparing-an-assault-on-a-concert-hall-belgian-bataclan-foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"They were preparing an assault on a concert hall; &#8216;Belgian Bataclan&#8217; foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; A &#8216;Belgian Bataclan:&#8217;\u00a0the scenario of an assault on a nightclub\u00a0like the one that occurred in France on November 13, 2015,\u00a0is real and, fortunately, was foiled by the country&#8217;s security forces. Four people,\u00a0including three minors, were detained and questioned as part of an investigation by police in Brussels, Liege, Ghent, and Charleroi. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.om-mp.be\/fr\/votre-mp\/parquet-federal\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal prosecutor&#8217;s office<\/a>\u00a0announced that\u00a0<strong>an attempted attack on a concert hall in the Belgian capital &#8220;planned within a few weeks&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>has been foiled. According to reports in the Belgian media, the target was the Botanique.\u00a0These are only the first elements of the investigation\u00a0 on which the strictest confidentiality is preferred for the time being. Investigators\u00a0said that of the four people arrested,\u00a0the Brussels investigating judge specialized in terrorism\u00a0questioned the only adult<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">He was <strong>charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group and preparatory acts aiming to\u00a0commit a terrorist attack<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"lRu31\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"OvtS8d\">It is unclear at the moment whether the entire cell was wiretapped or whether other people may be involved in the attempted attack. Prosecutors, however, said\u00a0that given the involvement of minors, information about them will not be made public.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The terror alert in the country, already subject to\u00a0a double attack in 2016 on the Zaventem International Airport and the Maelbeek metro station, remains high, however, not far from the EU institutions. The announcement\u00a0from the prosecutor&#8217;s office confirms the<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/01\/terrorism-alert-rises-in-belgium-100-more-threats-recorded-in-2023-than-the-year-before\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"_blank noopener\"> increased threats<\/a> and renewed focus of law enforcement on countering them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people arrested in Belgium, including three minors, ready to go into action &#8220;within the coming weeks.&#8221; Terrorism alert remains high in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":342249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[25801,25745,27073],"class_list":["post-342282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-belgian-cat-en","tag-safety-en","tag-terrorism-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342282"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343391,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342282\/revisions\/343391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}