What I have picked up in last few days:
The police of Mechelen (a city 25km North of Brussels) had the address of a third suspect who had talked to Salam Abdeslam. This address was mentioned in police reports months ago, but they failed to put it in the national database to let the other police forces know about this. In the end they arrested Abdeslam on that address. Sharing information between different police forces and towns is a decades old problem that should be solved by police reforms caused by the holding back information in the 80s and the 90s.
European countries criticized Turkey for years on weak border control and now it's their turn to slap European countries with the receipts. Ibrahim El Bakraoui was deported twice (once in July and once in August) by Turkey and Turkey accuses Europe for exporting extremists to Syria. And
Jordan accuses Turkey exporting extremists to Europe. Politics. And there is
satire on German public TV.
Ibrahim El Bakraoui was sentenced 10 years for shooting at the police. Belgian law ensures a second chance meaning that you can request probation after 1/3 of your sentence. 1/3 of life sentence is defined as 14 years.
http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/vi...5291/1.1002094
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As on November 1th, 2005 Belgium has 242 people serving a life sentence. 18 of them are more than 20 years behind bars, 4 more than 30 years and the longest behind bars is 39 years. 8 out of 242 are recidivists.
http://www.blikopdewereld.nl/rechtsp...traf-in-belgie
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It's quite an art to stay more than 20 years behind bars.
He could get probation after 3.33 years and got probation when he served almost 50%. The sentencing court has to ask the question if it's better to let him out now and reintegrate in society or let him out at the end of his sentence and being irreparable messed up causing more problems? Studies showed that convicts can get something positive out of their first 7 to 8 years in jail, after that they only care about escape. There is no added value to keep people longer than that.
Probation has conditions, but how strict are the rules followed up?:
- Monthly visit with the probation assistant. When he didn't show up in June 2015, he wasn't put on the list of the wanted.
- When the Turks signalled Belgium that he was found close to the Syrian border, Belgium did nothing.
- When he was put on the plane to the Netherlands, the Belgian liaison officer passed on the very urgent message the day after.
- He return to Belgium and went hiding. He didn't showed up in August, his probation was cancelled and he was put on the list of the wanted.
- Last week Tuesday Ibrahim El Bakraoui was probably in the safehouse in Vorst, it took a another week to write an European Arrest Warrant.
- His younger brother, Khalid El Bakraoui (27), had probation and was busted in being accompanied by a criminal. The sentencing court decided that he didn't have to be behind bars again.
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/36484/Aansl...Bakraoui.dhtml
It's becoming clear that 80% of these (born-here) terrorists are convicted criminals.
Extreme rights hooligans descended upon Brussels:
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnenl...ursplein.dhtml