BRUSSELS: Five people have been arrested and an arms cache found after overnight terror raids in France and Belgium linked to a bikers’ club called the Kamikaze Riders, officials and sources said Wednesday. A series of searches in the gritty Anderlecht district of Brussels netted four people and arms hidden in a garage, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said. Meanwhile, in northern France, a joint Franco-Belgian operation picked up a man on suspicion of having links to the Kamikaze Riders, a group implicated in terror offences in Belgium. A prosecutors’ spokesman said separately the raids were “directly linked” to members of the Kamikaze Riders, not to the investigation into the Paris and Brussels attacks. The prosecutor’s statement said the raids were “completely independent” from that probe.

Source: New Strait Times July 05, 2017 13:07 UTC