Belgium maintains terror alert; schools and subways closed Monday
- 8 years ago
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel says that the terror alert remains at the highest level for a sustained "serious and imminent" threat against the capital.
Michel said that like the weekend, authorities fear a Paris-like attack, "even perhaps at several locations."
He said schools and the subway system in Brussels would not open.
The Belgian capital remained under the country's highest terrorism alert level, level 4, with soldiers and heavily armed police in the streets, after authorities warned Friday night of a possible imminent threat to the capital.
People are also being warned to avoid gatherings.
Bernard Clerfayt, mayor of Brussels's Schaerbeek district, "It is very clear that there is a cell.
There are two terrorists on the Brussels soil, who might be in the process of conducting acts that are very dangerous."
Michel said that like the weekend, authorities fear a Paris-like attack, "even perhaps at several locations."
He said schools and the subway system in Brussels would not open.
The Belgian capital remained under the country's highest terrorism alert level, level 4, with soldiers and heavily armed police in the streets, after authorities warned Friday night of a possible imminent threat to the capital.
People are also being warned to avoid gatherings.
Bernard Clerfayt, mayor of Brussels's Schaerbeek district, "It is very clear that there is a cell.
There are two terrorists on the Brussels soil, who might be in the process of conducting acts that are very dangerous."