A Belgian connection – again – as terror strikes Europe

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A Belgian connection – again – as terror strikes Europe



The theory of a Belgian connection with the Paris attacks is gaining ground

PARIS: -- Seven people have now been detained in Belgium in connection with the inquiry amid searches focussed on the largely immigrant Molenbeek area of Brussels, a district that has been dubbed a hotbed of radical Islam.

Two of the cars used by the attackers were hired in Belgium according to the country’s federal prosecutor.

And, most strikingly, it has emerged that two of the seven attackers who died in Paris on Friday night were French nationals who had lived in Brussels, one of them in Molenbeek.

Many international security experts have long seen Belgium as an “Achilles heel” of violent Islam across Europe.

Proportional to its 11 million population, of whom half a million are Muslim, Belgium has been the European country which has contributed the most foreign fighters to the civil war in Syria — over 300 by official estimates a year ago — and it has figured in many Islamist attacks and plots across the continent.

“We are convinced that in Belgium, as in France, there are networks and foreign fighters and we have greatly increased our resources to fight these networks, with a certain level of success because in just a few months, we have been able to convict 170 individuals on terrorist charges,” said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel.

Among those with links to Molenbeeck are Ayoub El-Khazzani, overpowered in August on a high-speed train from Brussels to Paris, Mehdi Nemmouche who is accused of shooting dead four people last year at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and Hassan al Haski, prosecuted over the 2004 Madrid train bombings in which 191 people died.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-16

[sirineou]

I am never eating Brussel sprouts again, I move we rename them Freedom sprouts

[BuaBS]

I am never eating Brussel sprouts again, I move we rename them Freedom sprouts

They are delicious !! Sadly Thailand doesn't have them.

Belgium is a country overrun by muslims , with muslim ghetto's just like France.

[jaidam]

As sad as it was predictable. As a kid I remember associating Belgium with the hip Radio Luxembourg, moules-frites and funny mustaches. These days just mention Belgium and everyone thinks of Europes first 3rd world caliphate, vast no go areas, and non-consensual sex. The legacy of left wing politics.

[maxisrael]

I am never eating Brussel sprouts again, I move we rename them Freedom sprouts

They are delicious !! Sadly Thailand doesn't have them.

Belgium is a country overrun by muslims , with muslim ghetto's just like France.

Thailand HAS Brussel sprouts !! Makro frozen and sometimes fresh......................

[cryo]

Unfortunately Angela Merkel has opened Pandoras box a now cannot close it and I suspect this will be one of many such incidents. The stupidity of so called leaders is breathtaking I personally will not be visiting any major public celebrations over the coming year in the UK due to the risk that's been created and we are lucky being surrounded with sea, but still at risk. I feel very sorry for people in the rest of Europe who have land borders as you are now effectively at war on European soil with ISIS due to short sighted poletitions unraveling our fairly safe European lives. Shame on them all, so called professionals who will sell their souls for a few days good publicity but I feel this one will backfire tremendously. I feel much safer in Thailand than at present in the UK.

Ken

[Chicog]

25%+ of Belgium's capital are Muslims.

They will probably be the first European capital to have a Muslim mayor.

[stickylies]

These days just mention Belgium and everyone thinks of Europes first 3rd world caliphate, vast no go areas, and non-consensual sex. The legacy of left wing politics.

How strange??!! I think about Beer, Chocolate, New Beat, Waffles, Adolphe Sax and Django Reinhardt when I hear the word Belgium.

[OMGImInPattaya]

Seems to me Hollande has got his bombing campaign the wrong way round...his planes need to be bombing Paris and Brussels, not Racca, as that's where the attacks were planned and the attackers lived.

[Steely Dan]

I am never eating Brussel sprouts again, I move we rename them Freedom sprouts

They are delicious !! Sadly Thailand doesn't have them.

Belgium is a country overrun by muslims , with muslim ghetto's just like France.

I lived there 1992-5 it was severely enriched then, God only knows what it's like now.

[Steely Dan]

Unfortunately Angela Merkel has opened Pandoras box a now cannot close it and I suspect this will be one of many such incidents. The stupidity of so called leaders is breathtaking I personally will not be visiting any major public celebrations over the coming year in the UK due to the risk that's been created and we are lucky being surrounded with sea, but still at risk. I feel very sorry for people in the rest of Europe who have land borders as you are now effectively at war on European soil with ISIS due to short sighted poletitions unraveling our fairly safe European lives. Shame on them all, so called professionals who will sell their souls for a few days good publicity but I feel this one will backfire tremendously. I feel much safer in Thailand than at present in the UK.

Ken

The SAS have been deployed, that should tell you all you need to know about the risk level.

[JHolmesJr]

Take a look at the mofo's pic in the first post….you would have to be insane to let such a guy into europe…whats he going to contribute…make hummus or flip pita bread?

Donkeys all these immigration officers.

[stephenterry]

I am never eating Brussel sprouts again, I move we rename them Freedom sprouts

They are delicious !! Sadly Thailand doesn't have them.

Belgium is a country overrun by muslims , with muslim ghetto's just like France.

You can get frozen sprouts from rimping at certain times. Not cheap but could be available soon.

[stickylies]

Take a look at the mofo's pic in the first post….you would have to be insane to let such a guy into europe…whats he going to contribute…make hummus or flip pita bread?

Donkeys all these immigration officers.

yeah, like the thai immi officers letting those very interesting christian whities in