Suspect arrested in Morocco for involvement in bomb threats against dozens of schools in Belgium
Kyiv • UNN
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.
Details
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,
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Background
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.
