Unknown shoot investigators: One dead in anti-terrorism operation in Brussels – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Tuesday, 15 March 2016

 
 
 

 
 In investigations on the attacks of Paris fall in the Belgian capital Shots: During a house search Unknown opened fire on police officers. Several officers are injured. In the evening a suspect is killed. The use continues.
 

 
 

In the anti-terror police action in Brussels, a suspect has been killed. The news agency reported Belga evening, citing the prosecutor’s office. In the search for previously unknown shooters who opened fire on a Belgian-French group investigators in the early afternoon, therefore, a terror suspect was overwhelmed after hours of searching. According to media reports the man was shot. It should not have to be the main suspect

The use of the Forest District (also: Vorst). Is still going on. Another suspect is on the run, they say. The security forces have a large contingent in use. In pictures from Brussels can be seen, proceed as heavily armed officers on the roofs around the crime scene in position. From a surrounded house rose from a skylight smoke.

In the early afternoon the unknown had shot at a search operation of French and Belgian investigators in the south of the Belgian capital with assault rifles at police. In a Hail of Bullets of the suspects, four officers were latest reportedly injured, one reportedly difficult.

escape over the rooftops?

The search operation was, according to the Belgian authorities in connection with the attacks in Paris , French media said it was a joint anti-terrorist use of French and Belgian investigators. The Interior Ministry in Paris confirmed the participation of French investigators.

The search operation was however not the volatile main perpetrators of the Paris terrorist attacks of 13 November, Salah Abdeslam counted, as the investigators stressed. According to this information the target investigators only wanted to check a vacant apartment, which is said to have rented one of the backers of the Paris attacks. There then are suddenly shots like.

According to the eyewitnesses or the shooters should have opened with Kalashnikovs fire and his then fled over the rooftops. A witness spoke on CNN about 30 shots from an automatic rifle. In local media reports were first said two suspects have

Since the incident in the early afternoon security forces with a large contingent locally deployed in flight

Forest in the state of emergency, according to local residents detained. the authorities not only the affected road train. With some armored vehicles and heavily armed Forces therefore the entire district

The area should house was sealed off.

appears to be searched for House. Units of the Belgian military support the police and the special forces. Pictures from Brussels show snipers of the police and army, who went on the roofs around the crime scene in position. About the city circling helicopter looking for suspicious movements.

That were the investigators on site for new clues to the Paris-assassin, sets a terrorist background of the shooting near. So far, however, the motives of the shooter from Brussels are completely in the dark. Whether it actually is wanted terrorists in the fugitive suspects, is still open. The Belgian police has not yet commented on the details of the investigation

However, already had the suspicion of possible links with the terrorist attacks in Paris, experts sit up. In Brussels – and also in the French capital Paris – were immediately strengthened the security measures in public institutions, such as n-tv France correspondent Elke Büchter reported.

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In Paris Islamic militants had killed last November in a series of coordinated attacks in total 130 people. Among the most serious series of attacks in the history of France, the Dschihadistenmiliz known Islamic State (IS).

One of the alleged main perpetrators of Paris, Salah Abdeslam, still is four months after the murders on the run. He is the brother of the suicide bomber who had blown up in Paris with an explosive belt in the air.

Some of the bombers lived before the attacks in Brussels focal quarter Molenbeek and were the security authorities announced. Terrorism experts believe it is possible that Abdeslam might have tried to go into hiding in the Belgian Islamist scene. Since mid-November, eleven suspects were in Belgium arrested in connection with the Paris attacks, eight of them currently sitting still in custody.

Molenbeek lies in the west of the center of Brussels. The District Forest – formally one of the 19 boroughs that make up the Belgian capital – is about four kilometers south of Molenbeek. In Paris a search operation in the Fahnung after the main perpetrators of the attacks had escalated from 13 November and run riot into hours of gun battle.

 
 

  Source: n-tv.de
 

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