A powerful blast rocked a building in Verviers, a town in eastern Belgium, almost completely destroying its facade according to local media reports, causing people to flee the scene in a rush on Sunday. It is not yet known what caused the explosion; however, local media are reporting that at least 13 people have been injured as a result of the incident.
Category Archives: Belgium
A concerning First: A robbery with an explosive belt in Brussels
An original translation from Oz-Rita
From DHNet in Belgium
This is a first in Belgium, according to judicial authorities … A totally surreal robbery took place on Tuesday in the Post Office bpost Avenue Charles Thielemans in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre:
A thug threatened to blow up everything shortly before 14 pm. He was wearing an explosive belt. This has never been seen in the flat country according to a confession by the judicial authorities.
According to our verified information, there were only two staff present when the robber burst in. He said he wanted to send money via Western Union before throwing a piece of paper on the counter on which instructions were written in broken French: “If you do gesture to call police or if I hear police, I blow up everything”
He repeated these instructions orally while opening his jacket to show the credibility of his threat.
[EDITOR: Fascinating that there is no description whatsoever of the suspect. The “broken French” tends to give up the game but really, the media in the Western world is now tuned to deceive and not to inform. The basis for a revolution if ever there was one]
Belgium May 24 2015: Bart De Wever Receives Death Threats Again
An original translation by CB Sashenka
From LaLibre Belgium
[Bart de Wever, Belgium politician, is Mayor of Antwerp since 2013 and president of the New Flemish Alliance since 2004, a right-wing conservative Belgian political party advocating independence for Flemish region of Belgium.]
New death threats were made against the President of New Flemish Alliance, Bart De Wever, in a letter written in French, posted in Handschoenmarkt, Antwerp.
The letter threatens the Antwerp Mayor with execution if he does not convert to Islam. “I’ve always predicted that we would not be free from the threat of radical Islam anytime soon. This has been neglected for years. The boil is now open in Syria, and a lot of pus will have to come out before we are rid of it,” commented the head of New Flemish Alliance on VTM News on Sunday.
De Wever has longstanding personal protection. The Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis conducts screenings to assess the level of this.
According to Bart De Wever, with regards to this case, it’s at a level that calls for a bodyguard.
Video Translation: Oz-Rita
“Supporters of Sharia must leave Belgium”
An original translation by Sassy
From 7sur7 Belgium
Belgium’s far-right Vlaams Belang party launched a new campaign on Thursday. It invites all Muslims ‘who don’t feel at home here’ (in Belgium) and those who want Sharia Law to return to their country of origin.
A contest to win ten airline tickets to the ‘Islamic country of your choice’ is also part and parcel of the provocative campaign titled ‘East West? Home Sweet Home!’ – as per Filip Dewinter, the party’s Antwerp leader.
As evidenced by the number of Belgians who have left for jihad in Syria, Dewinter claims that radicalization concerns should not be directed solely towards the problem of the few hundreds of fighters who have joined the ranks of jihad. Measures such as special courses in schools and separation of radicalized prison detainees are no longer manageable.
“We must acknowledge that we are primarily responsible for the problem. We have allowed fundamentalist Islam to build its nest, as was the case in the countries of those Muslims that now live here”,
claims Mr. Dewinter. ??“It is now time to separate the wheat from the chaff: those who don’t truly want to adapt to our laws and customs, we must convince them to return to their countries”, says Dewinter. ? ?Vlaams Belang’s Antwerp chapter advocates for an ‘Active Return Policy’. As a first step, it will distribute 60,000 flyers of its campaign ‘East West? Home Sweet Home!’ in high immigrant concentrated areas such as North Antwerp, Borgerhout, North Deume and Hoboken.
Paras guard Jewish neighbourhood in Antwerp
From Deredactie.Be
Armed Belgian paratroopers on Saturday started to guard strategic locations across the Jewish district of the northern port city of Antwerp. The troops are among 300 members of the Belgian armed forces mobilised to ensure security as Belgium faces a level three alert in response to the threat of Islamic fundamentalist terrorist violence.
VRT News’s Liesbeth Indeherberge: “On our way to the Jewish neighbourhood we suddenly found ourselves bang in the middle of a column of military vehicles. Purely by chance I was able to witness the briefing of 3 Para. It took place at the local police station and the police were in charge.”
H/T GoV
(Does anyone think this is a sustainable strategy for defending Europe’s target population from the muslims that Europe is importing by the millions?)
Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang
Muslims in France claim to be the victims of the attack on Jews in Belgium by Muslims.
What is that Arabic expression? Put on the victim face then take over?
Thanks Oz-Rita for the translation
Two articles on state of Brussels Jewish Museum shooting
1. Original translation by SimonXML
From The Belgium Standard:
Jewish Museum shooting suspect released
The man who was arrested on Tuesday after the shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels has been released again.
The man was arrested yesterday by the federal prosecutor in another terrorism case. In the case of the attack on the Jewish Museum, the investigators are keeping all avenues open and their inquiries will include checking whether any clues can be found in existing cases.
The man who was arrested yesterday is said to have been a fighter in Syria. During his interrogation, in addition to the offenses for which he was arrested, the attack at the Jewish Museum was also considered because there are certain similarities between his profile and that of the perpetrator.
According to the federal prosecutor, the man could not be linked to Saturday’s events.
In the Jewish Museum last Saturday three people were killed and one seriously injured in a shooting. According to the prosecutor this was a terrorist attack.
2. The Czech President offers inside perspective
H/T Tundra T
Czech president says he condemns any group that targets another based on religion
Prague, May 27 (?TK) — Islamic ideology rather than individual groups of religious fundamentalists is behind violent actions similar to the gun attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that killed four people, Czech President Miloš Zeman said Monday at the Israeli Embassy in Prague.
Two Israeli tourists and a member of the museum staff were killed by an unknown shooter Saturday, and another staff member died of his injuries Sunday. [Click to continue]
Belgium: Three dead in what is being called an “antisemitic terrorist act”
RT NEWS:
Three people were killed in a shooting near the Jewish Museum in Brussels, which the Belgian authorities believe may be “an anti-Semitic terrorist act.”
Two women and a man died on site as the gunman opened fire at a group of people in front of the Jewish Museum in the central Sablon area, Belgian broadcaster RTBF said.
Another person was seriously injured in the attack, the emergency services said.
(Despite eye witnesses and video of the event, no description of the perps has been given in the story above. The Jewish community should sue the Belgian Government for reckless endangerment)
BBC:
Police have cordoned off the area but will not confirm if the gunman is still being pursued, as Duncan Crawford reports from the scene
A fourth person was seriously wounded, emergency services said.
The attacker arrived by car, got out, fired on people at the museum entrance, and returned to the vehicle which then sped away, Belgian media report.
(No description at BBC as well although they do have a video)
Haaretz claims their was an arrest. Still no description but many reports say it seem to have been a terrorist attack and antisemitic.
Islam always manages to amaze.
After years of chronicling the horrors that Islam as an ideology drives people to do, and no matter how numb I get to the inhumanity of countless muslim snuff videos, the retrograde forces it applies to otherwise exemplary societies, the degradation of human dignity they aspire to (not that they have the monopoly on that you understand) and take pride in that aspiration, it still amazes me that they can still amaze me.”
Thank you Oz-Rita for taking time yet again on your vacation to do not just the hard work of translating these videos, but having to subject yourself to the horror and the viscous evil that oozes out of them in order that those of us in still-civilized nations who do not yet understand the threat might get yet another glimpse of what it means not to oppose this ideology, and the people who spread it as rats carry plague.
New immigration video by Vlaams Belang, Belgian opposition party.
We all should make a video like this everywhere.
Belgium: Training camps for young jihadists in Ardennes
An original translation from
La Libre.Be
By Bear (Thank you!) H/T M
Belgium: “our judiciary authorities are on high alert”
It is a curious invitation that has been launched on Facebook. At the initiative of a certain Abu Moussa, a radical Islamist near Fouad Belkacem, this call invites young jihadists to assimilate the basics of the Holy War and this, in the heart of the province of Luxembourg. “There is seven or eight of the fifteen seats available, “says the relayed by our colleagues at Sud Presse and Nieuwsblad
The multiple trainings are set to begin on October 25 and end on November 1. According to a police officer, this stage could take place in the forest of Epioux.
Abu Moussa has been doing this since last year, when he used his networks in order to find young recruits and then send them to Syria.
Our judicial authority is on high alert. On the other hand, the province of Luxembourg did not know about this rather strange solicitation.
Riots in Belgium. Arrest of muslim criminal was the cause.
From Live Leak (H/T Golem Bar)
Riots and violence escalate in Belgian Muslim suburb after police attempt arrest
On Friday afternoon, when police went to arrest a Muslim man in the Flanders suburb of Muelenberg which is considered a “no-go zone” by the Belgium authorities, they were met by fierce resistance from the family and friends of the suspect, which spilled out into the street, and as a result the suspect was able to escape. That night, police returned with 80 officers, and were pelted with rocks. Five Muslims were arrested along with the suspect. There are ongoing riots and one Officer has been critically injured as a result of a fractured skull.
Anonymous makes French video targeting Sharia for Belgium
This is interesting. The vigilante hacker group called, ‘Anonymous’ has made a video threatening one of Anjem Choudary’s affiliates, Shariah for Belgium. It will be interesting to see what they actually do, what the various Muslim brotherhood affiliates will to in response and whether youtube will remove all the Anonymous videos as a breach of the terms of service on threatening or intimidating behaviour.
*NOTE: I do not endorse anonymous but had this translated and subtitled it in English because it is an important document. I made the best effort to translate accurately. If there are errors please point them out and if they are serious I will re do. However no attempt was made to distort the message of Anonymous. This was translated and posted here in the spirit of making available any news item that should be known to the public.*
Independent member of parliament in Belgium holds anti-Israel event outside the Israeli embassy June 2 2013
It is weird seeing grown men play with badly made model aircraft and model rockets and chanting stuff and stamping them into the ground. Its like a mass temper tantrum at the special olympics.