(NL Times) The police arrested a 16-year-old boy from Eindhoven on May 4 for planning a terrorist attack in a chat group on Telegram. The boy is still in custody. On Tuesday, the police also arrested a 19-year-old man from Deventer in this same case, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) confirmed to Eindhovens Dagblad.
According to the OM, the Dutch suspects spoke with a suspect from Belgium about planning terrorist attacks in Belgium. They were “serious conversations,” the OM spokesperson said to the newspaper. The Eindhoven teenager had not yet had physical contact with the other suspects or purchased items for an attack. “We suspect him of preparing a terrorist crime.”
The Dutch suspects’ arrests are linked with a larger case in Belgium.
