Police searched houses across country on eve of Olympic opening ceremony in neighbouring France
Police released four other people – who had also been detained during searches of houses across the country on Thursday – three of them after questioning by an investigative judge, according to the state prosecutor’s office.
Prosecutors said all seven taken into custody in the Brussels region and in cities including Antwerp, Liège and Ghent were natives of Chechnya, with the three who were charged suspected to be members of Islamic State Khorasan. Prosecutors said on Friday there was no indication that the suspects had chosen a specific target. They declined to give further information.. The prosecutor’s office did not respond to a question about a possible connection to the Games, which had its opening ceremony scheduled for Friday evening., in which 130 people were killed and 368 wounded, were largely planned and coordinated from neighbouring Belgium, and several of the attackers were Belgian nationals or residents..
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