Terrorism
Belgium is looking for the terrorists
Brussels is in shock: at Least 30 people were killed by Islamist terrorists, and more than 200 injured. The public life came to a Standstill. Where are the perpetrators? Bernd Riegert from Brussels.
The Belgian Prosecutor’s office published a photo of the three men with the baggage wagons. Two of the major side clothing. You should have as a suicide bomber in the departure hall of the Brussels flight havens Zaventem in the Morning is blown into the air. The third man in white lives apparently, and is supposed to be on the run. According to him, is now wanted by the police. His name, the investigators apparently did not know. In several parts of the city of Brussels of houses and apartments run by search. For more information on further investigation don’t want to make the prosecution and asked the media not to spread unconfirmed speculation. The photo was taken from surveillance cameras at the airport.
Bloodbath in the Metro
The rescue workers at the metro Station Maelbeek took several hours, all 20 of the dead and the many injured from the broken U-cart track and to the mountains from the platform. They were supplied on the sidewalk of a closed five-lane main road and in the Restaurant of a nearby hotel, before they could be transported to hospitals. The EU-district around the Station Maelbeek were on lockdown throughout the day from the police and the military widely. Thousands of employees of the EU Commission and the European Council had to stay in their offices. The streets were eerily empty. And raced an ambulance or police cars passing. In the late afternoon, people were allowed to leave their offices and homes, to go home.
First aid for the injured: rescue workers at the metro station Maelbeek
Many longer walks before were, in fact, since neither U-Bahn, buses or trams drove in Brussels. The S-Bahn-traffic in some suburbs, has a limited resume. The international rail traffic to France or Germany has been greatly thinned. In Belgium, the highest terror is alert level to Four, resulting in the closure of schools and public facilities. The Belgian Prime Minister called on his countrymen during a short press conference, to keep calm and to stay at home.
The airport devastated
When the operation can be started at Zaventem airport, is yet to be decided. On Wednesday, he remains closed, and the airport authority. 600 flights were cancelled. In Zaventem, had been devastated in the Morning two bombs in the departure hall, at least ten people in the death of her and dozens injured, some seriously. Parts of the ceiling panel fell. The glass façade shattered. The shocked passengers left the smoky building of the airport as fast as they could. The clearance of a huge area that lasted for several hours. All launches were cancelled. Incoming machines were diverted to Germany.
Evacuation of the airport in the Morning
The public Prosecutor’s office assumes that at least one suicide bomber in the main hall. The person who had called before he detonated his explosives belt, according to eyewitness reports, in Arabic: “Allah is great”. Prime Minister Charles Michel from Islamist terrorist attacks. Michel condemned the “barbarism” of the terrorists. “We will defend our freedom,” promised the Prime of his compatriots during a press conference. Meanwhile, the terrorist organization “Islamic state” to the series of attacks known. The authenticity of the Confessor’s letter did not want to confirm the public Prosecutor’s office in the evening.
The second bomb in the city of Zaventem, was apparently hidden in pieces of Luggage. A third bomb could be found in time before it detonated. In addition, at the airport, another explosives belt and a Kalashnikov was found gun. This suggests, according to Belgian security experts, one or several offenders are on the run.
Also a U-Bahn-offender on the run?
Whether it is the attack on the U-Bahn is a suicide bomber, is still being reviewed. At the crime scene forums to run examinations. The coroner shall also endeavour to identify the part of severely mutilated corpses. Belgian media publish gruesome images of severed limbs, screaming shafts children and leave smoke-filled metro train, the passengers had taken with their mobile phones. A doctor in the emergency room of a nearby hospital reported that the victim had injuries indicating the use of a metal-shrapnel-studded bomb.
After the Detonation with the mobile phone, Smoke and dust photographed: in the ticket hall
EU institutions closed
The bomb explosion in the subway was also felt in the surrounding buildings. At 9.11, thousands of employees of the European institutions at their places of work. The Headquarters of the EU Commission is only 300 meters away from the crime scene. Also, the President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, could not leave his job for security reasons. He was on the phone with European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to keep you informed of the situation in Brussels. “It was an attack on Belgium, but all over Europe is the goal,” said French President Francois Hollande in Paris. France, Germany and the European Union were lowered from the funeral all the flags at half-mast.
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Belgium and the Islamists (22.03.2016)
A connection between the wave of terror in Brussels and the arrest of the alleged assassin Salah Abdeslam last Friday in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel was not able to confirm. The “IS”Terrorist Abdeslam had fled to the Attentäten in Paris to Brussels and had in various conspiratorial flats four months in hiding. Belgium is in investigators circles for years as a recruiting area, and shelter to Islamist terrorists. From the environment of Abdeslam more strongly suspected of the attacks in Paris should be on the run.
In spite of the highest terrorist alert level, in schools, in Brussels on Wednesday lessons. Only the day care centres would close, and informed the authorities. The security arrangements at the two Belgian nuclear power plants have been increased. The border controls of the Belgian-French border have been tightened, according to the Belgian Ministry of the interior. In the evening, the king of the Belgians, Philippe turned, in a rare televised address to his people, and the families of the victims: “Queen Mathilde and I feel Your pain.”