 
Only Flanders Wants A Strong Approach
01.03.2010 - The situation in Brussels is getting worse and worse. Several neighborhoods have turned into criminal areas. The traditional parties carry a huge responsibility.
The Facts
In a firefight with the police, the fugitive prisoner Hassan Bouaïnine gets shot and killed. The following days, immigrant youngsters start several riots in Brussels. Around the same time, a Brussels’ school moves to a different location because the students were being robbed, beaten up and threatened by immigrant gangs who deliberately targeted “students with a European “, as the principal declared. A couple of days later, heavily armed gangsters fire at a police patrol. An officer is shot three times.
‘Futilities’
Contrary to the Flemish media, where the troubles in Brussels were front page news, the francophone press hardly mentioned anything about the violent events. On a political level, a similar division was visible as well. In Flanders, even left-wing parties (finally) seemed convinced that a strong approach to crime and zero tolerance is the only option remaining. This attitude is in strong contrast with that of Walloon politicians, who described the Flemish reactions as “hysterical”. Brussels’ socialist mayor Freddy Thielemans even called recent violent events “futilities”.
Confronted with the great public indignation in Flanders, the government announced the introduction of a policy of zero tolerance - but only in a few neighborhoods in the Brussels’ town of Anderlecht. One day later, this policy had already failed as several young criminals were arrested and released the same day.
Vlaams Belang Demands
A policy of zero tolerance cannot succeed without introducing the following measures:
- More manpower for the police and the magistracy
- The immediate expansion of prison capacity
- The introduction of summary jurisdiction
- The introduction of an effective juvenile criminal law
- A coordinated approach to the illegal economy in Brussels
- The actual repatriation of criminal foreigners
Vlaams Belang is demanding these measures and an effective zero tolerance policy for years now. All this time, the traditional parties did not even want to consider our propositions. Now, when things have gone completely out of hand, they copy several Vlaams Belang viewpoints. The traditional parties, however, carry a huge responsibility for the situation that exists today in Brussels.
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Fr En De Persinfo 09 september 2010 · 06:51
