Paris attacks: More homes raided in Brussels, one arrest made

Police raided seven properties in the Brussels region on Thursday morning and made one arrest in connection with the Paris terror attacks.

The properties raided were in the north-west Brussels districts of Molenbeek and Jette, and the arrest was made in the nearby district of Laeken.

RTBF said police were targeting people with possible links to Bilal Hadfi, a 20-year-old Frenchman living in Belgium who detonated a suicide bomb at the Stade de France venue in Paris.

Hadfi appeared on a list of 800 people known by Belgian intelligence authorities to have fought in Syria.

Meanwhile, the Belgian government has made available an extra €400m for reinforced security following the Paris terror attacks, prime minister Charles Michel announced.

Michel outlined 18 measures to the Belgian federal parliament in the wake of last Friday's massacre, which he said was "carried out by Franco-Belgian" terror cells.

He told parliament: "Let us get over our differences, join forces more than ever and unite behind the fundamental universal values of respect and tolerance."

Michel said there would "probably be other attacks, other tragedies, but we will not give in to panic".

Among the 18 measures are an additional €400m of spending in the 2016 budget for security, reinforced border checks and 520 army officers to patrol public spaces.

Belgium will also increase the maximum period a terror suspect can be detained without charge from 24 hours to 72.

A "Molenbeek plan" will be drawn up to prevent further radicalisation in the Brussels district where several of the Paris terror suspects lived.

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