Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Police and protesters clash at Brussels memorial ground
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Belgian police briefly used water
cannon to control several hundred rowdy protesters in central Brussels on
Sunday after they ignored an official call for marches to be postponed
following Tuesday's bombings.
Amid fears of further attacks,
officials wanted to give police the scope to focus on investigations which have
widened to other countries, leading to the arrest of an Algerian in Italy and
intelligence cooperation with Germany. Police carried out 13 new raids in
Belgium itself.
Hundreds nevertheless gathered at
the Bourse to express solidarity with the victims of the suicide bomb attacks
at Brussels airport and on a rush-hour metro train. Thirty one people were
killed, including three attackers, and hundreds more injured. Islamic State has
claimed responsibility.
Most of the protests were peaceful
but white-helmeted riot police used the water cannon against a group of
protesters, many of whom local media described as right-wing nationalists, who
burst onto the square chanting and carrying banners denouncing Islamic State.
"It is highly inappropriate
that protesters have disrupted the peaceful reflection at the Bourse (stock
exchange). I strongly condemn these disturbances," Prime Minister Charles
Michel said according to Belga news agency.
Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur said the
group were "scoundrels."
In and around Brussels and Antwerp,
police carried out 13 new raids in connection with the attacks, with nine
people questioned and five later released, the prosecutor's office said.
With links to the Paris attacks in
November becoming clearer, and amid criticism that Europe has not done enough
to share intelligence about suspected Islamist militants, cooperation appeared
to be deepening.
Belgian press agency Belga said on Sunday prosecutors had charged a man in connection with a raid in Paris on Thursday that authorities say foiled an apparent attack plot.
Belgian press agency Belga said on Sunday prosecutors had charged a man in connection with a raid in Paris on Thursday that authorities say foiled an apparent attack plot.
Belga named him as Abderamane A. who
prosecutors had said on Saturday was being held after being shot in a raid in
the Brussels district of Schaerbeek.
After a series of raids in Belgium
and Germany, Italian police also arrested Algerian Djamal Eddine Ouali who is
suspected of making documents for militants linked to the bombings, Italian
media said on Saturday.
His name was found in documents in a
raid on an apartment near Brussels last October, including some with photos of
militants involved in the attacks in Paris and in Brussels and the aliases they
used.
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