Belgian prosecutors charged three men with terrorism offenses on Saturday following raids amid heightened security in Belgium and France due to the Euro 2016 soccer tournament.
Three months after Islamist bombers killed 32 people in Brussels, police searched dozens of houses across the country and arrested 12 people the night before Belgium's Euro 2016 game against Ireland.
Nine of them were released after questioning but three Belgian nationals — identified as 27-year-old Samir C., 40-year-old Moustapha B. and 29-year-old Jawad B. — were charged with "having attempted to commit a terrorist murder and for participation in the activities of a terrorist group," the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.