Transport: Arrests were made from these converted ambulances
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Six British men were arrested in Belgium yesterday after they were spotted in three old ambulances near Brussels while the city was in a fullscale terror alert.
A heavily armed anti-terror unit swooped on the group close to an Esso petrol station regularly used by Salah Abdeslam – the fugitive terrorist still on the run from the Paris massacres.
Six armoured trucks and a police car moved in after the converted vehicles parked up in a rest area beside the E411 highway in Bierges south-east of the capital around 2pm.
Last night the six Pakistani-born UK nationals were being questioned while officers continued to search the ambulances – two Fiats and a Mercedes with British plates.
Brussels remained in lockdown following an intelligence warning of an imminentParis-style attack on the Belgian capital.
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Police are probing any link to Islamic State after using old ambulances was revealed to be a hallmark cover tactic used by the terror group.
Tanks and masked special forces squads were deployed to guard all major landmarks in the Brussels region while the manhunt continued for Abdeslam, 26.
The British men, who do not speak French, were said to be co-operating with detectives and have been fingerprinted to check for possible matches.
Specialist officers scouring the ambulances recovered clothes, food and money inside, raising suspicions they may have been heading for Syria.
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A suspected terrorist plot linked to a converted ambulance was foiled in Hanover, Germany, on Wednesday night.
French intelligence officials are reported to have warned their German counterparts about a potential attack, sparking a string of security alerts linked to the vehicle spotted near the football stadium where the national team’s game against Holland was cancelled .
Speaking about yesterday’s arrests of Britons, a police commissioner in Belgium said: “Shortly before 14.00 hours, we found the presence of three old ambulances, now transformed into vans, on the highway rest area.
On board were persons of foreign origin, one of who is known to the UK police. These are British citizens of Pakistani origin. They do not speak French but they co-operate.”
Four men were arrested near the Jewish Museum in the city centre where a terror attack took place last year.
In France troops were guarding water facilities around Paris today as the fear of a chemical attack intensified.
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Terror police arrest six Brits in three old ambulances close to Brussels petrol station
08:50, 22 NOV 2015
UPDATED 11:34, 22 NOV 2015
BY MATTHEW DRAKE
French intelligence officials are reported to have warned their German counterparts about a potential attack, sparking a string of security alerts linked to the vehicle spotted near the football stadium where the national team’s game against Holland was cancelled .
Speaking about yesterday’s arrests of Britons, a police commissioner in Belgium said: “Shortly before 14.00 hours, we found the presence of three old ambulances, now transformed into vans, on the highway rest area.
On board were persons of foreign origin, one of who is known to the UK police. These are British citizens of Pakistani origin. They do not speak French but they co-operate.”
Four men were arrested near the Jewish Museum in the city centre where a terror attack took place last year.
In France troops were guarding water facilities around Paris today as the fear of a chemical attack intensified.
Terror police arrest six Brits in three old ambulances close to Brussels petrol station
08:50, 22 NOV 2015
UPDATED 11:34, 22 NOV 2015
BY MATTHEW DRAKE
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