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Brussels, (AFP) – A Belgian couple of Iranian descent was arrested in Brussels on Saturday for preparing a bombing against a protest by Iranian opponents in 19459004 ] announced Monday the Belgian prosecutor antiterrorist.
Belgian police arrested the two defendants in a commune of Brussels with 500 grams of TATP, the same explosive used in the Paris attacks of 2015.
The two men are believed to have prepared a bomb attack Saturday in Villepinte, near Paris, during a demonstration organized by the mujahideen of the Iranian people, a banned opposition party by the Iranian authorities in 1981.
US President Donald Trump attended the opposition rally: former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani .
In addition to 500 grams of explosive, authorities seized a detonator
. An Iranian diplomat based in Austria and close to alleged terrorists, was interviewed in Germany. French sources said three people had been arrested by the police as part of the failed attack
Criminal records were also recorded in five Belgian localities.
"The attack was prevented thanks to the collaboration between the French and German judicial authorities", informed the prosecution.
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