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BRUSSELS, (APP/AFP): Belgian police on Tuesday arrested
ten people in the Brussels area allegedly part of a network recruiting people to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria, prosecutors said.
The ten were arrested during raids in Molenbeek and others areas of
the Belgian capital but the case is not linked to the deadly November Paris
attacks, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Several of those involved in the Paris killings came from Molenbeek.
“The raids were carried out as part of an investigation into a
recruitment network linked to Islamic State. The investigation helped determine that several people had travelled to Syria to join Islamic State,” it said.
The raids were ordered by a counter-terrorism judge in the eastern
city of Liege who will decide later in the day whether to continue holding them, the statement said.
Investigators were studying mobile phones and computer equipment
seized in a total of nine raids across Brussels.