50 people were evacuated from the Palace Cinema in Brussels this afternoon after a bomb threat, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Police lifted a cordon on the area at around 5pm local time, with screenings at the cinema resuming at around the same time.<\/p>\n
“At around 14:00, the police told us that everyone in the building had to leave,” said Lysiane Menier, communications officer at the Palace cinema, told the Belga news agency.<\/p>\n
“There were about fifty people. The police then searched the entire building with explosive detection dogs. After an hour or two, we were given permission to re-enter the building and resume our activities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"50 people were evacuated from the Palace Cinema in Brussels this afternoon after a bomb threat, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1789,111452,111451,1500,11330,111448,111449,111450,12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-301858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-belgium-latest","10":"tag-belgium-news","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-brussels","13":"tag-brussels-bomb-threat","14":"tag-brussels-latest","15":"tag-brussels-updates","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114937925797453087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}