The operation targeted sympathizers of the extreme right. A person was killed, Wednesday, September 28, in Belgium, during an exchange of fire with the police, during an operation against a project of‘”terrorist attack”announced the federal prosecutor’s office.
The investigation is led by an investigating judge from Antwerp. She targets “a milieu suspected of belonging to the far right” and facts of‘”violation of the law on weapons”, says the prosecution. It gave rise Wednesday morning to a dozen searches in Dutch-speaking Belgium, in particular in Ghent and Antwerp. It was during one of them that the fatal exchange of gunfire took place, “in a building”.
The searches, adds the federal prosecutor’s office, “allowed the seizure of a large number of weapons and ammunition, the count and analysis of which will have to be carried out in the coming days”. “Some weapons present on site were legally registered”is it still indicated. The Free Belgium specifies that this fatal shooting took place in Merksem, a district of the city of Antwerp.
