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SuspecSted jihadi who sparked three-hour Brussels standoff with armed cops over ‘wires in coat’ was actually STUDENT collecting nuclear radiation data

Belgian capital is on high alert following Nice attacks last week and March's airport bombing

BY DANNY COLLINS

 

20th July 2016, 2:34 pm

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A TENSE armed stand-off over a suspected jihadi bomb plot was ended – after the suspect turned out to be a student doing research for a university assignment.

Brussels police and bomb squads raced to the scene after reports of a “suspicious” man wandering through the city wearing a “a long coat with protruding wires”.

Dramatic images showed the suspect kneeling on the ground with his hands behind his head as two police train their pistols at him in the city centre.

But local media has reported the young student was in fact collecting data for a uni project on nuclear radiation in the Belgian capital.

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Two police train their pistols on the suspect, who is kneeled on the pavement with his hands behind his head

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Several police cars attended the scene after a security guard reported seeing the man acting suspiciously

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Heavily-armed security forces train their rifles on the suspect as they respond to reports of a “suspicious” man in a long winter coat with protruding wires

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A bomb disposal robot appears to approach the scene of the scare in Brussels

But a police spokesman confirmed the man was in fact a student measuring radiation in the Belgian capital for

Police spokesman Christian De Coninck had earlier confirmed an operation was underway at Place de la Monnaie, a busy shopping area in the city centre.

He said: "We got a call about someone acting suspiciously.

"Someone with a heavy winter coat - in these temperatures it's very suspicious.

"And there were wires coming out of the coat too. We didn't take any risks. The person was stopped and kept at a distance.

"We are now waiting for more information from the bomb disposal unit which is at the scene now and then we'll know more."

The city is currently basking in temperatures of 32C - prompting concerns about his need for a thick winter coat.