Belgium charges 1 detained in anti-terror sweep, releases 15 others

Soldiers and police patrol on Brussels' Grand Place
(Image credit: DIRK WAEM/AFP/Getty Images)

Belgian police charged one man Monday in connection with the deadly Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, a federal prosecutor said. The unnamed man, the fourth suspect Belgium has charged in the attacks, was detained during Sunday terror raids aiming to prevent imminent attacks by Islamist extremist terrorists.

The other 15 people police detained in Sunday's raids were released without charges, The Associated Press reports.

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