United Kingdom: arrested five people in connection with attacks in Paris and Brussels – Onet.pl

 
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  UK: arrested five people in connection with attacks in Paris and Brussels airport
 
 
 

Three men and a woman were arrested yesterday Birmingham, one man – today in the morning at Gatwick airport near London.

the police chief in the West Midlands Marcus Beale said that there is no information suggesting that the attack was planned in the UK.

– This operation is part of a wide-ranging investigation by the department for. the fight against terrorism in the West Midlands region, together with a wider net for. combating terrorism, the British MI5 counterintelligence and foreign partners, including the Belgian and French authorities – said Beale. He added that the investigation is aimed at investigating any threats to the UK following the attacks carried out recently in Europe.

Police would not disclose details, but a source in the security forces reported that the arrests were linked to the suicide bombings in Brussels, where on March 22 killed 32 people and the November attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people.

Everyone arrested – two men aged 40 and 59, two aged 26 and 29-year-old woman – they were taken in for questioning. The police are searching several premises in Birmingham – Reuters reports.

British media reported that the Belgian Mohamed Abrini, suspected of co-organizing attacks in Brussels and Paris, went last year to Birmingham, where he took photos of the football stadium.

on the other hand, Abdelhamid Abbaoud, coordinator of the attacks in the French capital, who died five days after the attacks in the operations of French SWAT on the outskirts of Paris, also visited Birmingham in October, and on your phone had a photo of several places in the city.

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