{"id":2760408,"date":"2026-02-04T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2760408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:37:36","slug":"merkel-says-germany-to-help-belgium-capture-brussels-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2760408\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel says Germany to help Belgium capture Brussels attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-testid=\"EagerImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/archive-images.prod.global.a201836.reutersmedia.net\/2016\/03\/22\/LYNXNPEC2L1A8.JPG\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"German Chancellor Merkel makes a statment after the Brussels attacks, at the Chancellery in Berlin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angel Merkel makes a statment after the Brussels attacks, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany March 22, 2016.  REUTERS\/Fabrizio Bensch<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Germany would work with Belgium to find and punish the perpetrators of bombing attacks in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the German cabinet would convene on Wednesday to discuss the implications for Germany of the attacks on Brussels airport and a metro train in the Belgian capital that killed at least 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will work in every way with &#8230; the Belgian security services to find, identify and punish the perpetrators of today&#8217;s crimes,&#8221; Merkel said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Paul Carrel<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angel Merkel makes a statment after the Brussels attacks, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2760409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784994],"tags":[18361,21347,765505,786322,14869,762765,432323,762732,763188,762828,762829,762681,52896,73796,285050,762700,4626,762734,762783,135664,38674,764620,763189,762721,762944,762723,110044,771470,762694,762688,75430,238274,129083,818633,762689,79243,762731,763103,89874,219734,762733,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-2760408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-be","9":"tag-war","10":"tag-airp","11":"tag-airs","12":"tag-asia","13":"tag-bact","14":"tag-bomb","15":"tag-ceeu","16":"tag-civ","17":"tag-clj","18":"tag-crim","19":"tag-cwp","20":"tag-de","21":"tag-def","22":"tag-dip","23":"tag-emrg","24":"tag-eu","25":"tag-europ","26":"tag-ezc","27":"tag-gen","28":"tag-germany","29":"tag-huma","30":"tag-imm","31":"tag-inds","32":"tag-insurg","33":"tag-intag","34":"tag-iq","35":"tag-islm","36":"tag-meast","37":"tag-news1","38":"tag-nl","39":"tag-pol","40":"tag-rel","41":"tag-rora","42":"tag-secur","43":"tag-sy","44":"tag-tran","45":"tag-un1","46":"tag-us","47":"tag-vio","48":"tag-weu","49":"tag-5326"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2760409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}