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The Latest: Police fan out in Brussels to stop protests

Police detain a group of people at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels, Belgium, Saturday, April 2, 2016. Authorities had banned all marches in Brussels, after a far-right group announced its plans to hold an anti-Muslim rally in the city. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Police detain a group of people at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels, Belgium, Saturday, April 2, 2016. Authorities had banned all marches in Brussels, after a far-right group announced its plans to hold an anti-Muslim rally in the city. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) Police detain a group of people at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels, Belgium, Saturday, April 2, 2016. Authorities had banned all marches in Brussels, after a far-right group announced its plans to hold an anti-Muslim rally in the city. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on attacks in Brussels and Paris (all times local):

3:25 p.m.

Belgian police and soldiers have fanned out across Brussels, making arrests to stop protesters from the far-left and far-right who are trying to break a ban on demonstrations.

Police handcuffed and hauled away a man in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek early Saturday where a demonstration was planned by a France-based far-right group. Molenbeek, a neighborhood with a large Muslim community, has served as the departure point for many of those who attacked Paris in November and Brussels in March. Those attacks left over 160 dead.

Police, some on horseback, also have moved into the Bourse neighborhood in central Brussels where a counter-demonstration was planned. Some people there have been detained.