Weapons found at home of Paris terror attacks suspect

Soldiers patrol

Belgium: Belgian federal prosecutors said that investigators found some weapons at the home of a person charged yesterday with terrorism offences related to last week's attacks in Paris. The prosecutors' office said in a statement that neither explosives nor a suicide belt had been found during the search. No following details were given about the retrieved weapons. A judge charged the unidentified person with participating in terrorist attacks and in the activities of a terrorist organisation.

Soldiers patrol a street in Brussels on Saturday. Pic/AFP

Meanwhile, Belgium raised the alert status for its capital, Brussels, to the highest level, shutting the metro and warning the public to avoid crowds because of a "serious and imminent" threat of an attack.

A week after the Paris attacks, of whom one suspect from Brussels is at large and said by authorities to be highly dangerous, the city was placed on the top level "four" in the government's threat scale after a meeting of top ministers, police and security services. Suspected militant Salah Abdeslam, 26, returned to Brussels from Paris after the attacks, when his elder brother Brahim blew himself up at a cafe.