The security perimeter set up around the Palace cinema, located on Boulevard Anspach in Brussels, was lifted around 4:45 p.m., noted Belga on site. The bomb alert, reported shortly after 2 p.m., lasted about two hours. In a few minutes, all the police, present in number, left the premises, once the alert has been lifted.
“At 2 p.m., the police told us to get all the people present in the building out“Explained Lysiane Menier, communications manager for the Palace cinema. About fifty people were present on site.”Then the police checked the whole building with dogs. And we were allowed to get into the building two good hours later.“Cinema has since resumed its activities.
The Brussels-Capital/Ixelles police also evacuated the surroundings of cinema as well as neighboring metro stations in order to carry out checks. Consequently, the metro lines 1 and 5 were temporarily interrupted between the arts-laws and count of Flanders. The premetro and grant metro stations, Anneessens and Brouckère were closed by police order. Trams and metros did not stop during the intervention.
At 6 p.m., all stations were reopened after the last checks carried out by the Stib
