“The RTL news agency said a man detained in the town of Verviers was planning an attack on fans watching Belgium’s next Euro 2016 game against Hungary tomorrow. But Eric Van der Sypt, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office, said: “It is too soon to talk about a terror attack.” Of course. Better to wait until more people are killed.
No hint, of course, in this Mailonline story about who the arrested men were, or why they might have wanted to blow themselves up at Euro 2016. One would have to know from other stories that the Islamic State has been plotting attacks against Euro 2016. The Mailonline, like the rest of the mainstream media, doesn’t see fit to inform its readers that there is a jihad against the West.
“Belgian anti-terror police ‘arrest two men planning to blow themselves up during Euro 2016 game against Hungary,'” by Chris Summers, Mailonline, June 25, 2016:
Belgian police detained two men for questioning after fresh anti-terror raids overnight amid reports of a planned suicide attack on a Euro 2016 fanzone.
The RTL news agency said a man detained in the town of Verviers was planning an attack on fans watching Belgium’s next Euro 2016 game against Hungary tomorrow.
Eric Van der Sypt, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office, said: ‘One man was arrested in Verviers and another man in Tournai’ but no weapons or explosives were found.
He said: ‘It is too soon to talk about a terror attack. The two men have to be questioned first.’
Last week three men were charged with ‘attempted terrorist murder’ after 12 people were arrested amid a reported threat to fans in Brussels watching Belgium’s game with Ireland, which they won 3-0….