Europe: Improve your Police Work instead of reducing your Peoples’ Rights

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http://www.juancole.com/2016/03/europe-improve-your-police-work-instead-of-reducing-your-peoples-rights.html

Europe: Improve your Police Work instead of reducing your Peoples’ Rights
By contributors | Mar. 24, 2016
By Fiona de Londras | (The Conversation)

The attacks of March 22 in Brussels were shocking, but not surprising. They reinforced what many have known for years: Belgium has a serious problem with terrorism.

For a long time, security analysts have expressed anxiety about the depth and extent of radicalisation and fundamentalism in the country. It is thought that Belgium has the highest per capita rate of foreign terrorist fighters of any EU country. A February 2016 “high-end estimate” puts that number at 562 out of a population of just over 11 million.

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Over recent years there have been attacks on Belgian museums, supermarkets and trains, raising questions about why the country cannot seem to effectively tackle the challenges of insecurity.

As ever, the answer is not a simple one. Rather, as observed by Tim King, Belgium’s “failures are perhaps one part politics and government; one part police and justice; one part fiscal and economic. In combination they created the vacuum that is being exploited by jihadi terrorists”.

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