- Title: Belgian bomb squad find no explosives after Brussels scare
- Date: 8th August 2017
- Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (AUGUST 8, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF POLICE CARS AND POLICE OFFICERS NEAR SUSPECT'S CAR BOMB DISPOSAL DEVICE NEAR CAR BOMB DISPOSAL DEVICE SEARCHING CAR, CONTROLLED EXPLOSION RESCUE OFFICERS STANDING (SOUNDBITE) (French) BRUSSELS PROSECUTOR SPOKESWOMAN, INE VAN WYMERSCH, SAYING: "A high-speed pursuit started and in the end the police had to shoot once on the vehicle. Nobody was hurt. When we arrested, stopped, the suspect, he immediately told the police that he had explosives in his car so we did not take any risk, we put a security area in place and the army's demining service is now in place to check whether yes or no there are explosives in the car." BOMB DISPOSAL DEVICE REMOVING BLANKET FROM CAR CAR BEING MOVED (SOUNDBITE) (French) BRUSSELS PROSECUTOR SPOKESWOMAN, INE VAN WYMERSCH, SAYING: "He's a mentally instable person who is saying incoherent things. We do not know his motive and we are still not a 100 percent sure there are no explosives in his car. But the experts of the army's demining service has not yet been able to find explosives in his car." POLICE ON SITE BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERT STANDING NEAR CAR POLICE STANDING VARIOUS OF BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERT REMOVING THINGS FROM CAR PLAIN CLOTHES POLICEMAN TALKING TO MAN BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERT REMOVING BAG FROM CAR, INSPECTING IT POLICE OFFICERS STANDING BY POLICE TAPE
- Embargoed: 22nd August 2017 20:27
- Keywords: Belgium Brussels bomb scare bomb Brussels bomb scare Belgian bomb squad no explosives
- Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
- City: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
- Country: Belgium
- Topics: Bombing (non-military),Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA0016TASDAF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A Belgian bomb squad found no explosives after a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb in his car was stopped by police, Brussels prosecutors said on Tuesday (August 8), adding there was no evidence he was plotting an attack.
The bomb scare was in the district of Molenbeek, a poor area with a large Moroccan Muslim population that was home to the Islamic State members who attacked Paris in November 2015.
Officials said the suspect was from Rwanda and was not known to have a police record.
He was detained after leading police on a chase, speeding through a red light, until they fired a shot at the wheels of the car to slow him. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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