Turkish media report detention of 3 suspected militants
These three persons includes a Belgian man who is a Moroccan origin who is suspected of being a scout for ISIS (Islamic State Group).
The Anadolu Agency said early Saturday that the two Syrians and the Belgian national – identified as Ahmet D. – were detained near the Turkish coastal city of Antalya.
The level four threat was declared following a meeting of top ministers, police and security services. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Abdeslam, who authorities said left Paris after the attacks and returned to his hometown in the Brussels area. Because the assaults in Paris last Friday., raids have followed in Brussels, where one asserted attacker, Salah Abdeslam, has-been hiding out, in accordance to buddies who spoke with him.
“Had the Belgian authorities alerted us in due time, Dahmani could have been apprehended at the airport”, said the official.
Instaed, a man wearing a suicide device was the one that detonated, the prosecutor’s office told CNN.
The country was also home to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is suspected of having been the ringleader of the attacks in Paris. He was killed during a raid that shook the Saint-Denis neighborhood outside Paris and collapsed an entire floor of an apartment building. One of many men allegedly served as a lookout throughout the assaults outside the Stade de France, Turkish cops officers stated.
Dozens of suspected militants have been arrested since the crackdown.
The Belgian capital’s terrorism alert was raised to the highest possible level amid reports that police had found an arsenal of weapons after searching the home of a terror suspect in Molenbeek, the run-down suburb where the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was from.
The resolution calls on all member states to take all necessary measures in compliance with worldwide law to “redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts committed specifically” by ISIS and urges states to “intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters to Iraq and Syria”.