BRUSSELS: Brussels' Molenbeek area, long infamous in Belgium's capital city for its crime and unemployment, has emerged once again as a European hotbed of Islamist extremism where residents say they live in fear.

Residents of the largely Muslim area said they were caught in the middle of a war as police blocked off a main street on Monday in the latest of many raids since it emerged at least one of the Paris attackers had lived there.

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