A suspect in the bomb threats that led to the closure of about 30 schools in Brussels and Wallonia-Brabant was detained in
Morocco; he confessed to the crime but did not show terrorist motives. Classes resumed on Tuesday after authorities checked the
schools.
About 30 schools in Brussels
and Wallonia-Brabant were closed yesterday due to reports of a bomb threat
of a bomb threat that had been reported the day before. After an inspection by the authorities, all schools reopened
reopened on Tuesday. According to the Belgian media network RTBF, the federal
judicial police today identified the man suspected of making bomb threats against Belgian
schools - the suspect was detained in Morocco, reports UNN.
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Thousands of students were not
were unable to attend classes on Monday as about 30 schools in Brussels and Walloon
Walloon Brabant were closed after some received bomb threats over the weekend.
bomb threats over the weekend, in which the sender said he would reveal the
the location of the explosives in exchange for money.
Prosecutors in Brussels
in Brussels said on Tuesday that a suspect had been arrested in Morocco in
in the investigation of a series of bomb threats that led to the suspension of classes in schools
Belgium.
The arrested man, who holds Moroccan nationality, was interrogated and confessed to the Moroccan authorities. (...) Initial findings of the investigation indicate that the suspect has no terrorist motives,
After the murder of a high school teacher in Arras
of a high school teacher in the northern French town of Arras on October 13, Belgium and
and neighboring France, threats of bombings in schools have become more frequent. Earlier in November, in the
Belgian region of Wallonia, students and staff of two schools were evacuated
because of a bomb threat. Also in France, after the end of the school holidays on November 6
November, more than 300 warnings of
of danger.
As a reminder
In France, at the end of
October, the police used fire in an attempt to neutralize a veiled woman who
allegedly threatened to "blow herself up" at a Paris metro station.
metro station.
UNN also reported
also reported that in the German town of Firitz (Brandenburg), a police operation against armed
a police operation against an armed man who barricaded himself in a
a residential building with a child, and periodically fired from there.