Belgian Police Alerted to Daesh Militants En Route to Europe
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Belgian police have received an anti-terror alert warning that a group of Daesh (also known as ISIL and ISIS) terrorists recently left Syria en route for Europe planning attacks in Belgium and France, a security source said Wednesday.
The Belgian crisis center in charge or coordinating security responses said that an alert had been circulated to all police forces in the country but there were no immediate plans to raise the security level to the maximum that would indicate an imminent threat of an attack, Reuters reported.
Newspaper DH quoted the alert from Belgium's anti-terror cell as saying the terrorists group "left Syria about a week and a half ago to reach Europe via Turkey and Greece by boat without passports", without giving an exact departure date.
The alert came two days after an attacker who pledged allegiance to Daesh killed a French police commander and his partner at their home outside Paris, and four days after a gunman declaring loyalty to the terrorist group massacred 49 people in a nightclub in the US city of Orlando, Florida.
