The Prime Minister of Belgium, on the list of a group that aimed to assassinate him: “Planned attack”
Prime Minister Bart de Wever, during a plenary session of the Chamber of Federal Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on October 9, 2025. Photo: Dirk Waem / Zuma Press / Profimedia
The Belgian authorities have dismounted the attempts of a group that planned attacks on some politicians of the country, including Prime Minister Bart de Wever, the Prosecutor's Office and Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Prevote, according to Reuters, announced on Thursday.
“The news of a planned attack on Prime Minister Bart de Wever is extremely shocking,” Prevote wrote, in a message published on the social network X.
“This emphasizes that we are facing a very real terrorist threat and that we must remain vigilant,” he added.
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office said that two suspects were arrested and are interrogated by the Antwerp police following an operation against the cell.
“This judicial intervention is part of a investigation regarding, among others, the crime attempt and the participation in the activities of a terrorist group,” the prosecutor's office said, in a statement.
“There are indications that the intention was to commit a terrorist attack of jihadist inspiration that aimed at politicians,” added the Prosecutor's Office.
He said that the searches carried out in the houses of the suspects in Antwerp have led to the discovery of a device that resembled an improvised explosive device, a steel ball bag and indications that the group intended to use a drone in the attack.
In March 2016, 32 people were killed in a suicide bombing at the airport in Brussels and in the city subway, in attacks claimed by the Islamic State, and in October 2023, a man who had declared himself an Islamist militant shot two Swedish citizens who were in Brussels for an international football match.
