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Belgian police have raided a Brussels neighbourhood in connection with today's atrocity in Paris, it has been reported.

Belgian TV news reported an arrest has been made in the suburb of Molenbeek and a video posted on Twitter showed a man being handcuffed by what appear to be plain clothes officers and uniformed cops with guns as he lies face down on a wall.

Newspaper De Standaard reported several suspects were arrested, quoting the spokeswoman for Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens

.The mayor of Molenbeek, Françoise Schepmans says she can nor deny nor confirm that there is indeed a link between the attacks in Paris, reports RTBF .

An bomb disposal team also arrived at the scene to determine whether there were explosives in the apartment.

Its website quoted a source close to the operations as saying there had been "between two and three searches, linked to the Paris attacks" and that one man had been arrested.

A Molenbeek parking ticket was also allegedly found in a car the terrorists.

Earlier it was reported that one of the cars used by the terrorists carried a Belgian number plate, reports French newspaper Le Monde.

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A witness said he saw two black cars, and one carried a Belgian number plate.

A passenger on the front seat was described as looking very young.

"I would say he was 18 or 20 years old", said the young woman.

Belgium has also been a recent target of militant attacks.

In May last year, a gunman, believed to be a French national who fought with Islamist rebels in Syria, killed four people in an attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

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In August, two people were wounded in a struggle to subdue a suspected Islamist militant gunman who had boarded in Brussels a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris.

ovements of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia this year have prompted some EU states to suspend elements of the bloc's open-border system.

Belgium also imposed additional frontier controls on road, rail and air arrivals from France in response to Friday's attacks, government officials said.