Posted on 08/07/2016 3:13:37 PM PDT by Enlightened1
At least five terrorists involved in the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks were receiving welfare benefits from the state, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing local authorities.
Belgian financial investigators looking into the terrorist attacks found that Salah Abdeslam, charged with taking part in the Paris assaults, had collected €19,000 ($21,000) in welfare payments, which were stopped just a few weeks before the attacks were carried out in the French capital in November, WSJ reports.
However, Abdeslam should not have been receiving payments as he partly owned a bar, which he was managing at the time. Belgian officials say this made him ineligible for welfare.
In total, the authorities say that five terrorists who took part in the Paris and Brussels attacks were able to claim a total of over €50,000 ($56,000).
Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London, told the Wall Street Journal that something needs to be done to address issues with the welfare system, adding that it is accepted that “the benefits system is vulnerable to abuse for terrorist financing purposes.”
He said that the authorities could perhaps look at different ways of handing out benefits, such as the use of vouchers.
“If you’re paying benefit to people in certain parts of Brussels, maybe you need to be a little more observant about who you’re paying to, and what they might be doing with it,” he told the newspaper.
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has previously encouraged its followers to tap into the European benefits system. In a 2015 booklet, it suggested that “if you can claim extra benefits from a government, then do so.”
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Yes, of course they did.
That’s just one of the thousands of malign consequences of the leftist welfare state.
WELFARE is a SICK DISEASE!!! For Countries that GIVE it and for people that RECEIVE IT!!!
Meanwhile the Vatican wall stays up.
Maybe if those cheap euros had only given them 100K they would not have been so mad.
So this is a surprise?????, the government was feeding and clothing the enemy within so they can attack thier own civilians. People need to rise up and throw out thier leaders who do so
How much did the Tsarnaev brothers and their family members screw American taxpayers out of?
Genius Godless multi-cultural limp wristed Europe self exterminates.
You can’t make it up.
They still are.
That was the “cheese” (and the helpless women to rape)
that Merkel used to destroy Europe.
Welfare is an investment in the future...
I guess if there’s a bright side to this it is that the refujihadis weren’t hungry or broke when they started killing Europeans. Probably used their welfare bennies to purchase the guns, ammo and explosives too. We’re killing ourselves but like they say, you can’t fix stupid. Clintoon is promising us 100,000 refujihadis in the first 100 days. We can see our future by just watching what is going on in Europe. The slaughter here is going to be “historical”. That should make the snowflakes happy anyway.
“Belgian financial investigators looking into the terrorist attacks found that Salah Abdeslam, charged with taking part in the Paris assaults, had collected €19,000 ($21,000) in welfare payments, which were stopped just a few weeks before the attacks were carried out in the French capital in November, WSJ reports.”
Does this mean they will not be able to compete in the Jihadi Olympics? Beheading looked wide open in these games.
Were they showing their appreciation for the handouts?
I’m sure our taxes have been given to terrorists here in the form of welfare.
So now we are FORCED to fund terrorism!!!
All these terrorists are financed bt the state. Once you understand that the elite is against the native population all becomes clear.
No, no,no. It is a tax. Jisyah tax, so all’s well.
Heartbreaking.
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