Ten people trapped in Belgium for IS Recruitment

brussels - Ten people were arrested Tuesday in raids in several towns in Brussels in connection with an investigation into the recruitment for terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). There were indications that left several people to Syria to join IS, as did the federal prosecutor of Belgium on Tuesday.

The authorities were nine houses within the municipalities Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Koekelberg Schaerbeek and Etterbeek. Ten people were taken in for questioning. A judge will decide later Tuesday whether ten people, of whom no other information is disclosed, get stuck.

The police confiscated computer equipment and mobile phones,, '' to complete, which are now being investigated, according to the prosecutor.

This research is unrelated to the search for the (co-) perpetrators and accomplices of the terrorist attacks in Paris.