BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, the Belgian military neutralized a man, who carried out a small explosion at the central train station of Brussels.
"Some signs, as it seems, evidence that the suspect was a sympathizer of the Daesh terrorist organization," the statement read.
The perpetrator of the blast in the Brussels train station likely made the bomb himself at home.
"According to the results of the searches carried out in the home of suspect O.Z. in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, he likely made the bomb there. In particular, chemical components and materials which could be used to make explosives were found there," the prosecutors said.
Several people behind the 2015 Paris terror attacks and 2016 Brussels blasts are known to have lived in the Molenbeek commune characterized by its Mayor Francoise Schepmans as "a breeding ground for violence." In March, local media reported, citing an in-depth police investigation, that over 50 of the 1,617 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) under observation in the commune had links to radicalism and terrorism.
