Police in Brussels were called to shut down an ongoing gathering seeing a number of right-wing leaders in attendance.

The National Conservatism Conference was set to take place over the next two days at the Claridge venue, near the European Quarter in the Belgian capital.

However, police officers informed organisers two hours before the event was set to begin that it could not go ahead.

Politico reported having heard a police officer telling one of the event’s organisers: “The authorities decided to shut the event due to possibility of public disorder.”

Author Rod Dreher claimed on X that a local authority was “trying to shut off electricity to [the] hall”.

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