Belgium

The Brussels bombings terror trial begins today of ten suspects accused of helping to carry out Islamic State suicide attacks that killed 32 people and injured more than 300 in March 2016.

Salah Abdeslam, 33, is among the Isis jihadists standing trial, having already been convicted of murder for his role in the Bataclan gun and bomb attacks in Paris, which killed 130 and injured more than 400 in 2015. But absent will be terrorist commanders and their lieutenants who masterminded or led the bombings in the Belgian capital; they either blew themselves up, died in shootouts with police or during the war in Syria.

BRUSSELS — Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre left 32 dead and hundreds marked for life. Now, six and a half years later, Brussels will host its biggest ever criminal trial.

Jury selection begins on Wednesday ahead of hearings into the charges against the nine alleged jihadists accused of taking part in the March 2016 suicide bombings.

The case will be heard in the former headquarters of the NATO military alliance, temporarily converted into a huge high-security court complex.

Colonized Brussels: Moroccan Migrants Celebrate Their Team's World Cup Victory Over Belgium with Riots

One-third of the country’s population is of foreign origin; in Brussels, Belgians are the minority.

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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities said Friday that the lone assailant who killed one police officer and wounded another in a stabbing attack had been on a counterterrorism list of potential extremists.

The Belgian suspect, who had served six years in prison for common-law crimes, had gone to a police station early Thursday to express hatred for them, but couldn’t be arrested before he launched his stabbing attack on two police officers that evening.

The family of one of the victims of the 2016 Brussels Airport attacks has reacted with shock to a report on “forgotten” victims, broadcast on Wednesday evening on RTBF.

The reaction came from relatives of a 23-year-old woman from Kontich who is said to have received euthanasia recently because of unbearable psychological suffering following the attacks.

The woman’s family said, through its lawyer, that the RTBF report was done without the knowledge and cooperation of her next of kin. “It seriously raises eyebrows from a deontological and ethical standpoint,” the family said in a statement.

Gunshots. Knifings. Cars being set aflame. All in broad daylight, all on the streets of Molenbeek.

Molenbeek, Belgium, you may recall, was the Brussels neighborhood that was home to almost half of the jihadists responsible for the 2015 Paris attacks and several subsequent terror attacks in Belgium. The bomber of a train at Brussels Central Station in 2017, for instance, lived in Molenbeek. Mehdi Nemmouche, who shot and killed four people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum in 2014, had previously lived in Molenbeek. The mastermind of the Paris killings, Abdelhamid Abboud, grew up and still lived in Molenbeek.

While Lieven Verstraete, an acclaimed Belgian journalist who hosts the program, “De Zevende Dag” (“The Seventh Day”), was recently interviewing two members of the Green Party, he raised the issue of immigration and called Brussels “the perfect example of a city whose neighborhoods are conquered one by one by newcomers”.

Newcomers? Conquered?

“How?” replied Nadia Naji, a politician of Molenbeek’s Green party.

“Well,” Verstraete, visibly uncomfortable, tried to explain, “more and more people with immigrant origins come to live there and claim their place. Do you feel Belgian in Molenbeek?”

A few hours after the broadcast, he apologized.

“In twenty years”, the French newspaper Le Figaro predicted about Brussels, “the European capital will be Muslim”.

Country by country, city by city, Europe is Islamizing.

“Molenbeek would love to be forgotten, because it is the very example of the failure of the multicultural society, which remains an untouchable dogma in Belgium”.

So writes in Le Figaro Alain Destexhe, former Belgian senator and general secretary of Doctors Without Borders. He talks about the case of Conner Rousseau, president of Vooruit, the Flemish socialist party, who has just told Humo magazine: “When I drive around Molenbeek, I don’t feel in Belgium”.Scandal and deluge of criticism, the harshest of the French-speaking socialist party “brother” of Rousseau: “Intolerable, stigmatizing and xenophobic observations”

Openly gay Belgian MP Gilles Verstraeten has suggested that he is fearful of holding hands with another man in the no-go Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, claiming integration of migrants has been poorly managed.

In Belgium, Islam is rapidly replacing Christianity. When a society no longer knows a reason to exist, others find it.

A church in Forest, Brussels, has been transformed into … a climbing gym. “In Belgium, it’s the first time,” says Dhnet. This was announced by Mayor Mariam El Hamidine of Ecologists.At the same time, the old church on rue de l’Eglise in Masnuy-Saint-Jean was officially put up for sale for 100,000 euros. The decision was made by the city council. In Nivelles another church ended up on the market. Then the Ciney church was sold for € 200,000. In Ghent, the church of Sant’Anna has been converted into a supermarket. And in Beyne-Heusay, 2 out of 5 churches will be demolished.

And this to record changes only for the last three months. Going a little further back is the church of Petit Wasmes, in Wallonia, converted into apartments, while in Anderlecht the great church of St. Francis will become a sports center.

Two neighborhood officers who were in charge of checking a domicile in the Marolles district, rue de la Querelle, in Brussels, on Friday evening, shortly after 7 p.m., were attacked by about thirty young people . “Why are you here?” You don’t have to do anything there! Here, it is at home, it is us who manage the city! “, In substance dared to tell them, contextualizes a well-informed source.

Losing control of the streets just like the French.

Méry-sur-Oise: a wedding procession blocks traffic before stoning the gendarmes, 4 wounded

The gendarmes spotted the convoy and found that it was again blocking traffic near the town hall of Méry-sur-Oise, on avenue Marcel-Perrin. This time, the military intervened to put an end to this situation. They were the target of numerous projectiles and used tear gas.

🔴 Des gendarmes, intervenus pour un cortège de mariage qui bloquait la circulation, ont été agressés et visés par des projectiles à Méry sur Oise dans le Val d’Oise, hier. Trois véhicules de gendarmerie ont été dégradés et quatre gendarmes blessés. #ensauvagement pic.twitter.com/SJ6bWjDLOS

— Amaury Brelet (@AmauryBrelet) September 26, 2021