{"id":246349,"date":"2016-05-27T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/antwerp-terror-suspects-planned-attack-on-flemish-nationalist-filip-dewinter\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T21:52:42","slug":"antwerp-terror-suspects-planned-attack-on-flemish-nationalist-filip-dewinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/antwerp-terror-suspects-planned-attack-on-flemish-nationalist-filip-dewinter\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp terror suspects planned attack on Flemish nationalist Filip Dewinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brussels-attacks-counter-terror-belgian-police-arrest-four-linked-to-terror-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested in Antwerp<\/a> earlier this week on suspicion of being terrorists planned to shoot\u00a0Filip Dewinter, the leader of the anti-immigration\u00a0Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party, Belgian media reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Federal police said the plans were at an early stage but were advanced enough to cause great concern,\u00a0according to the newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gva.be\/cnt\/dmf20160526_02310068\/antwerpse-terreurcel-wilde-filip-dewinter-afknallen\" target=\"_blank\">De Gazet van Antwerpen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were arrested on\u00a0suspicion of being part of a terrorist group and planning to commit a terror attack, the federal prosecutor said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects is alleged to have wanted\u00a0to walk into Dewinter\u2019s office and \u201cshoot him down.\u201d However, they later changed their focus to a large-scale terror attack using explosive belts.<\/p>\n<p>Their lawyers said it was doubtful that the men would have gone ahead with their plans because of their young age \u2014 the youngest is reported to be 16.<\/p>\n<p>Dewinter said he was shocked by the news: \u201cI have been threatened a lot, even with weapons, but I am shocked each\u00a0time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/antwerp-terror-suspects-planned-attack-on-flemish-nationalist-filip-dewinter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group\u00a0arrested in Antwerp earlier this week on suspicion of being terrorists planned to shoot\u00a0Filip Dewinter, the leader of the anti-immigration\u00a0Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party, Belgian media reported Friday. Federal police said the plans were at an early stage but were advanced enough to cause great concern,\u00a0according to the newspaper\u00a0De Gazet van Antwerpen. Four people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}