Belgian police arrest Dutch resident on terror charges.

AMSTERDAM — Belgian police have arrested a Dutch resident of Moroccan origin on suspicion of involvement in the Madrid train bombings in March.

The man was arrested on 1 July when the suspect — identified as El Houcine el H., of the southern Dutch city Weert —applied for asylum in Belgium, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Wednesday.

A spokesman from the federal prosecution office in Brussels said that the suspect was accused of preparing an international terrorist attack from Belgium.

He said the arrest was linked to arrests carried out on 8 June, when Belgian authorities raided homes in Brussels, Schaarbeek and Antwerp and arrested 15 people.

The detainees — who originate from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco —were accused of holding links with the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM). Four suspects are still being held on remand.

The four suspects are alleged to have formed an operational group that used Belgium as its base and could have been sent anywhere across the globe to carry out terrorist attacks. The terrorist cell was allegedly managed from Italy.