Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur has decided to cancel the New Year's fireworks display, after receiving the advice of Belgium's coordinating unit for threat analysis, OCAM, of an imminent terror attack. As DPA reports,
"It is better not to take risks," Mayeur tells the broadcaster.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel expresses solidarity with the "delicate, difficult decision" taken, adding in an interview with RTBF that it was the "correct" choice.
So the terrorists win?