Seven people have been arrested in Belgium and Paris after masked anti-terror police carried out a string of raids across Europe in connection with the Brussels massacres and a new terror plot. Armed police wearing balaclavas swooped on properties in the Schaerbeek and Jette districts of Brussels and arrested a total of six people, who are thought to be connected to Tuesday's airport and Metro bombings. Gunfire and explosions were all reportedly heard as police conducted the raids.
Meanwhile, French police arrested a convicted ISIS recruiter who was in the 'advances stages' of planning an attack in France during a raid in in the northern Paris suburb of Argenteuil, Reda Kriket was reportedly jailed in his absence in Belgium last year in connection with a network sending jihadists to Syria, and considered 'extremely dangerous'. It is understood 34-year-old Kriket had been under police surveillance for 'quite some time'. 'The arrest is the result intricate work carried out over the last few weeks by intelligence services,
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