Brussels News: Canada closes embassy 16 people were arrested in protests linked to possible attacks
Canada closes embassy 16 people were arrested in protests linked to possible attacks Brussels, the Belgian public prosecutor announced early Monday that police arrested 16 people in 22 raid, but Paris was a fugitive Salah Abdul Salam was not among them. Federal Attorney General Eric van der Sypt and said that "no firearms or explosives discovered" in the raids - 19 in Brussels and three in Charleroi in the south of the country. One of the detainees were injured when a car exploded was in tried to ram the police while trying to escape. ", And the investigation continues," he said. Raids capped a tense day with hundreds of soldiers patrolling authorities in search of one or more of the suspected militants, the Belgian government chose Sunday to keep the capital on high alert at the beginning of the work week in order to prevent an attack along the lines of Paris. Citing the threat of a "serious and imminent", Prime Minister Charles Michel announced...