Irish tourist sparks terror alert in Belgium after he’s spotted ‘wearing a glove and holding a wire outside restaurant’
Cops swoop on the man in town where ISIS horror attacks were masterminded
A TOURIST sparked a terror alert in Belgium when he was spotted wearing a glove and holding a wire outside a packed fast food restaurant.
Cops in Namur, south of Brussels, swooped on the unnamed Irish man after they received calls from terrified members of the public.
CCTV images of the Brussels Airport suicide bombers, had infamously shown them wearing single gloves thought to conceal electric detonators.
Namur is on high alert after a bomb threat was reported at its train station only last month.
Passengers were evacuated after a call to emergency services.
It was also where one of the two bombers who blew themselves up at the airport was based ahead of the atrocity.
Najim Laachraoui, also suspected of being the principal bomb-maker for both the Paris and Brussels attacks, lived in the town under an assumed name.
The house reportedly became one of the launchpad bases for both the Paris and Belgium attacks.
The alarm was raised again in the small town on Friday afternoon after the Irish man was seen holding a wire.
Police rushed to the scene and spoke to the tourist, who told them that he was touring around Europe and was “carrying all he had” with him, local media reported.
He had only come to Namur, off the normal tourist track, to see the museum dedicated to 19th century local-born erotic artist Felicien Rops.
It is believed the innocent wire may have been dangling from his baggage.
Belgium remains on a high state of alert after 32 people were killed in ISIS terror attacks at the airport and a metro station in the capital Brussels on March 22.
On Saturday, an entire metro line was shut down in the city of Charleroi in what proved to be a false alarm after a man rang in claiming to have planted a bomb on a train.
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