Tenth Suspect Charged Over Paris Attacks

The New Year’s Eve fireworks has been cancelled and more than 10 000 projectiles and 100 kg of confetti have been removed by Fx3, the organisation in charge of the nine and half minute scheduled show.

A judge was to decide later on Thursday whether the six detained people could be held further.

The 22-year-old man, identified only as Ayoub B, was arrested during a search of a house in Brussels on Wednesday.

The alleged plot comes after a police clampdown on suspected Islamists, including last month’s arrest of an alleged member of the ISIS group suspected of planning a suicide attack on the United States consulate in Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, where 15,000 police will be deployed.

They also seized computers, mobile phones and equipment for airsoft, a sport using guns that shoot non-lethal plastic pellets.

Teri reports that the man detained in the Paris case has been charged with “terrorist murder”.

Brussels has been on high alert since it emerged that several of the attackers involved in the Paris carnage on November 13 had links to the Belgian capital.

France says the attacks, which have been claimed by Daesh, were planned in Belgium, home to Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspected assailants in the attacks.

Counter-terrorism analyst Claude Moniquet told RTL television that the decision to cancel the heart of the festivities “lets the terrorists win a little” as they target western civilisation.

Metropolitan Police spokeswoman Superintendent Jo Edwards said: “We’re mindful of what’s going on in other cities and across the world, we’re linked into the intelligence services, but there is no specific intelligence about the event in London tonight”.

Both Paris and Brussels canceled New Year’s Eve fireworks displays as soldiers and police ramped up security in European capitals over perceived terror threats. Heightened security measures are scheduled to be put in place for many large-scale celebrations Thursday night, including the famous New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square in Manhattan.