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Agence France-Presse

Belgian counterterror police have arrested a man suspected of plotting an attack against the United States embassy in Brussels, federal prosecutors said on Monday.
Security forces on Saturday arrested a man following “converging signs raising fears of an attack against the US embassy”, the prosecutor’s office said.
“The suspect has been detained for an alleged attempted attack within a terrorist context and preparation of a terrorist offence,” it said in a statement.
The suspect, identified only as MG, appeared on Monday morning before an investigating judge who ordered him held in the case, the prosecutor’s office said.
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The suspect denies any involvement in the alleged plot.
A source close to the investigation said the suspect is a Belgian man, around 40 years of age, who had “raised suspicion because of his behaviour”.
He had been seen “scouting” the embassy area before he was arrested, the source added.


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The suspect was ‘detained for an alleged attempted attack within a terrorist context and preparation of a terrorist offence’, the prosecutor’s office said


The suspect was ‘detained for an alleged attempted attack within a terrorist context and preparation of a terrorist offence’, the prosecutor’s office said.


Man in Belgium arrested on suspicion of plotting terror attack on US embassy

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The suspect was ‘detained for an alleged attempted attack within a terrorist context and preparation of a terrorist offence’, the prosecutor’s office said