(AFP) Belgian police on Thursday arrested seven people suspected of supporting the Islamic State (IS) group and plotting a “terrorist attack,” prosecutors said.
Almost all the suspects are ethnic Chechens, and three of them possess Belgian nationality, prosecutors said in a statement.
“The exact target of the planned attack has not yet been determined,” they said.
Police, backed by elite units, raided nine addresses in several towns in western Belgium in an operation led by an investigating judge specialised in terrorism cases.
The judge will decide “at a later stage” if there is sufficient evidence to charge the suspects, the statement said.
