The January 2015 Verviers raid was a Belgian police operation that killed two suspected jihadists days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The 2015 opening quoted Belgian prosecutors describing the raid as targeting "a jihadist terrorist cell, reportedly believed to have links to ISIS, on the verge of committing a terrorist attack." Today's opening says only that it was "an anti-terrorist operation against Islamist radicals," though jihad survives three times in the body. A reader today does not learn that Belgian prosecutors linked the cell to ISIS and said it was about to carry out an attack.
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2015, Belgian police carried out a raid on premises in Verviers, Belgium. According to news sources, the raids were an anti-terrorist operation against Islamist radicals . Two suspects died in the raids, which involved heavy gunfire, with a third being seriously wounded. Other operations were carried out in Brussels , Schaerbeek , Sint-Jans-Molenbeek , Vilvoorde , and Zaventem . An armed man was reported to have been arrested in Brussels. The Belgian prosecutor's office stated that the raids were an operation against a jihadist terrorist cell, reportedly believed to have links to ISIS , on the verge of committing a terrorist attack. Police are investigating the possibility of links to the Charlie Hebdo shooting in neighbouring France. The men killed in the raid, Redouane Hagaoui and Tarik Jadaoun, were alleged by police to have been planning to attack sellers of the "survivors' issue" of Charlie Hebdo released following the attack in Paris. "Politie schiet twee terreurverdachten dood in Verviers, verschillende invallen in ons land" . newsmonkey (in Dutch). 15 January 2015. "Opérations anti-djihadistes en Belgique: deux morts (vidéos et direct)" (in French). "Verviers: Three terrorists killed in Belgium after police swoop on address following tip-off" .1
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On 15 January 2015, Belgian police carried out a raid on premises in Verviers , Belgium . According to news sources, the raids were an anti-terrorist operation against Islamist radicals .
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