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Europe’s Capital of Crime
12/24/2009 :: During the last week of November, thugs in the immigrant Brussels neighbourhood of Anderlecht burned down the local police headquarters. The Belgian press has hardly mentioned the incident, but the international press is beginning to take notice of the growing insecurity in the capital of Belgium and Europe. On 19 October, the German newspaper Die Welt wrote that Brussels is “Europe’s Capital of Crime.”
The Germans were shocked by the barbaric assault with baseball bats on 46-year old Angelika Niebler, a German Member of the European Parliament (MEP), by two Brussels youths. They continued hitting the MEP after having robbed her of her purse and blackberry. The assault happened in the European district, which is assumed to be one of Brussels’ safest areas.
Worsening situation
Brussels is the seat of both the European Union and NATO, the home to 35,000 EU civil servants and 2,500 diplomats, plus several hundreds of foreign journalists, whose security the Belgian authorities seem unable to guarantee.
After the violent attack on Mrs. Niebler, witnesses called the police. They had to wait 90 minutes before police officers arrived on the scene. The officers shrugged their shoulders and said they are understaffed.
In the wake of the incident, which received a lot of attention because a non-Belgian MEP was involved, the Belgian authorities have promised European Parliament officials that police patrols in the European district will be increased.
Brussels ranks as one of Europe’s most criminal cities in the statistics of Eurostat. The Brussels police is badly equipped and officers’ wages are low. Die Welt points out that 40% of Brussels’ inhabitants are immigrants. As the number of immigrants continues to rise, the situation only grows worse.
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