Posted on 11/08/2005 2:57:18 PM PST by Eurotwit
BRUSSELS — The Belgian government's crisis centre confirmed on Tuesday night vandals had set cars ablaze in the cities of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels.
It is the third night in succession that cars have been torched, but a spokesman for the national crisis centre said each case was an "isolated" incident.
"There were no injuries and there was no certainly no gathering [of youths]. The culprits cannot yet be found," spokesman Fernand Koekelberg said.
The ongoing unrest in Belgium has fuelled concerns of a spillover of the violence witnessed in France in the past two weeks, news agency AFP reported.
"We hoped that [the initial incidents on Sunday night]
were isolated cases, but apparently it's continuing," police spokesman Albert Roossens said earlier on Tuesday.
And as night closed in on Tuesday, the national crisis centre said an arson attack took place in the Van Kerckhovenstraat in Antwerp at 7.30pm.
The street is located in a problem district on the edge of the city.
Public prosecution official Dominique Reyniers said witnesses saw three youths running away from the scene and police were still trying to track them down, newspaper 'Het Laatste Nieuws' reported.
A delivery van was then set on fire on the Mariemontkaai in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. The fire spread to and damaged another vehicle also.
In another incident, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a car in the Brussels city centre, but the vehicle did not catch on fire.
A similar incident took place in the Edmond Machtenslaan in Molenbeek. In that case, the vehicle was damaged by the ensuing blaze.
Near the metro station Clemenceau in Anderlecht, a delivery van was reported to be on fire, but it was not immediately known if arson was to blame.
There were also two reports of burnt cars in the Ghent district of Sint-Amandsberg. A car was deliberately torched in the Kriekerijstraat, while a jeep was set ablaze in the nearby Hogeweg.
The jeep was parked near a shed and it was initially feared the fire would spread to the premises, but the fire brigade was able to bring the flames under control.
[Copyright Expatica News 2005]
"The Belgian government's crisis centre confirmed on Tuesday night vandals had set cars ablaze in the cities of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels."
Trouble sprouts in Brussels.
Doesn't look like it's dying down to me.
"Do you think the Belgians are going to be spineless like the French..."
may i correct you ?
The Belgians are spineless.
As an european I would not be too unhappy to thatsmall shitty country burn.
Head quaters of the EU and its corrupt non elected mafiosis.
Kristopher.
It's always the enemy within, isn't it?
'A problem district'. Well, that explains it .... a problem district.
Actually, I think the issues are much much different in Europe where in fact that have closed borders and much much more immigation enforcement than the US. The issues that led them to here are:
1. A generous welfare state that took away incentives, including the incentive to have kids to take care of one in ones dotage.
2. Immigration as a solution to a labor shortage and to pay for the welfare state.
3. A religious decline that implies the Euros don't understand religious people particularly non Christians.
4. A failure to adopt a guest worker or assimilation program.
Unfortunately some anti immigrant Americans want to glom on to a completely different situation.
Afterall America may have an enforcement problem but we are talking about yet another group of Christian immigrants that America has absorbed for generations. Certainly in some locals where the left is in charge they are trying to stop assimilation, but elsewhere the US situation is completely different than the Euro situation of a population of unassimlated but legal immigrants or their offspring.
Seems like someone learned that when you rise up and burn stuff "nothing happens".
Forces of freedom on the march! Europe trembles.
By backing the Jihadists in the Balkans, we (US and EU) opened the door to this behavior in the heart of Europe.
If its Tuesday,it must be Belgium!
Haven't heard much coming from the US Gov't on this. hahahaha
Belgium borders France so it's not all that surprising.
Belgians have been as spineless as the french on muslim immigration and all the problems going on with it.
I predict they will handle this as well as the french as well.
Haven't heard anything about Germany. If it's true we can simply add it to the growing list.
Cars set on fire in Berlin in 'copycat' incident
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=25115&name=Cars+set+on+fire+in+Berlin+in+%27copycat%27+incident
Also been reports of fires in Bremen...
Small stuff though compared to France..
Then you has this though..
German television crew attacked in French riots
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=25164&name=German+television+crew+attacked+in+French+riots
Why in the world was the correct title removed?
I have never set foot in Europe proper, it sounds like you may have or have studied these issues in more depth than I.
In your comments you refer to the welfare state or cheap labor being some of the key reasons so many have migrated to the continent. Sadly , I don't think that is that far from applying here as well in some areas of this country. Of course , that does not speak very well of the countries of origin from whence the immigrants originate.
Re: closed borders, I do not know what procedures are in place to prevent any ethnic group or immigrant(s) from buying a Eurail pass or taking boats in the dark of night and moving freely thru and between the continent's many countries and acting out their own nefarious deeds without needing to circumvent reasonable preventive measures.
I am taken back a bit by your comment about anti immigration activists "glomming" on to what you describe as a different situation for the most part. I am not so sure that is necessarily true, or whether you harbor some feelings that there has been an over-reaction by the same to our current plight here.
Here we have more than an enforcement problem, imo, we also have a leadership problem and an awareness one as well, albeit intentional or otherwise.
I would like to think that if nothing else, many here have been working within the system to change some of the sentiments that keep us bound to failed policies.
Maybe you could be a little more specific where glom comes in. Or maybe I am just seeing gloom where none exists. ;-)
Muslims in Europe:
AUSTRIA
400,000 Muslims (5% of the population)
BELGIUM
400,000 Muslims (4% of the population)
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
1.6 Million Muslims (40% of the population)
BULGARIA
912,000 Muslims (12.1% of the population)
CZECH REPUBLIC
20,000 Muslims (0.2% of the population)
DENMARK
170,000 Muslims (3% of population)
FRANCE
6 Million Muslims (10% of population)
GERMANY
4.1 Million Muslims (5% of population)
ITALY
0.6 Million Muslims (1% of population)
NETHERLANDS (HOLLAND)
1 Million Muslims (6.25% of population)
NORWAY
82 Thousand Muslims (1.8% of population)
RUSSIA
27.65 Million Muslims (19% of population)
SLOVAKIA
5000 Muslims (0.01% of population)
SPAIN
0.8 Million Muslims (2% of population)
SWEDEN
0.4 Million Muslims (4.5% of population)
SWITZERLAND
0.35 Million Muslims (4.5% of population)
TURKEY
67 Million Muslims (99.8% of population)
UKRAINE
2 Million Muslims (4% of population)
UNITED KINGDON (GREAT BRITAIN)
1.5 Million Muslims (2.5% of population)
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Park/6443/Europe/
And where the hail is law enforcement?
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