A group planning attacks on Belgian politicians, including Prime Minister Bart de Wever, has been thwarted, the public prosecutor’s office and deputy prime minister Maxime Prevot said on Thursday.

“The news of a planned attack targeting Prime Minister Bart de Wever is extremely shocking,” Prevot wrote on X.

“It highlights that we are facing a very real terrorist threat and that we have to remain vigilant,” he added.

Belgium has had to contend with attacks from people associated with Islamic State, as well as rising insecurity from feuding drug gangs, over the last decade.

Belgian Justice Minister Annelies Verlinden wrote on X that the police operation against the cell had possibly prevented an attack from being carried out on Thursday.

The Belgium federal public prosecutor’s office sa

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