Three minors and one adult were arrested around ten days ago. They had planned to attack a Brussels event hall, but not only that. We found out that they were also planning to attack the Eiffel Tower with explosives. Several people are still being wanted.
They don’t know each other in real life, but chat about Islamic State for hours on the Signal app.
Some of the members of the group search the dark web for weapons, others make do with knives. A meeting was held on Friday, March 1. They plan to act the following Monday, as a source close to the case tells us: “The police report will be sent on Saturday morning and taken into account, as there are concrete indications of an imminent attack. The plan is to operate in Brussels on Monday evening. The police operation will be decided and carried out on Saturday during the day or evening. The DSU (Direction des Unités Spéciales) will be set up during the night from Saturday to Sunday”.
(…) “Some talked about meeting in Paris. They talked about planting explosives at the foot of the Eiffel Tower to make it fall down. There was one who was always talking about suicide attacks with pile-driving vans. It was the Frenchman who was always talking about such attacks,” said one source.
(…) The radicalised young man, who describes himself as a Salafist, has been attending a mosque for a year and a half, but considers it too lax. A relative confides in him: “In just one year, his attitude changed: beard, long hair, prayer robes. He became cold, distant, withdrawn and moralising. He brushed aside the fears of those who feared religious radicalisation and replied tirelessly that he had simply found his faith…”. RTL.be