Brussels Police Ordered Not to Defend the City Against BLM Rioters

During the BLM riots in Brussels the weekend before last, the municipal police failed to act in a timely manner against the rioters’ violence and destruction. According to one disgruntled police officer, this was because they had been ordered by their superiors to hold back.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from the Belgian daily La Libre:

A police officer says, “We were hit with rocks, but the order from the mayor to charge didn’t come”. Close reacts, “That’s ridiculous; that’s defamation.”

by Jonas Legge
June 8, 2020

The attack against the police, the looting of businesses, and the destruction of public property this Sunday, at the end of the Black Lives Matter protest in Brussels, has caused indignation, anger, but also incomprehension.

How to explain that the police did not intervene earlier? “It’s simple, we didn’t receive the order. We had to wait 1 hour and 30 minutes!” exclaims a police officer of the Brussels-Ixelles district, who wishes to remain anonymous.

“Before the demonstration, we had received the order to not implement controls. Then, when we were hit with rocks and we confirmed the material destruction, such as traffic lights and traffic signs, we could not act. However, there the means to intervene was already in place. In normal times, we would have charged, but the order did not come… We remained in a defensive position: one leg in front and the baton in hand,” our source relates. “Then they sent us to play hide-and-seek: That is, we received the order to proceed to a street, except the mayhem was happening a few blocks further away. The goal: To avoid confronting the demonstrators. I really don’t understand what was going on in the heads of our decision-makers at that moment, because we could have easily arrested the rioters.”

The decision-makers that our contact brings up, who are they? “The mayor of Brussels,” exclaims the police officer. “It is he who gave the instructions this Sunday, it’s he who supervised the operation from the crisis center with the area chief. Today, he says he reacted in time. But on the ground we had to wait 1 hour and 30 minutes after the first incidents before we could finally intervene. We felt abandoned. We were obliged to let it go when we were hit with every object that was in the hands of the ‘people destroying things’. Today, several colleagues are injured due to the paving stones they were hit with.”

Our source indicates that, like her colleagues, she expected the protest to end in mayhem. She nevertheless considers that there were enough police on the ground. “It’s just that the manner in which we were utilized is incomprehensible. Morally, it is hard to go through.”

Finally, this police officer deplores the fact that the residents and merchants of the quarter were themselves also neglected. “Imagine: They call the police and more than an hour later, the police are still not there. They don’t understand this absence of reaction, this abandonment.”

Strike notice

The police union SLFP has filed a notice of strike for the Brussels Capital-Ixelles police district, which was deployed to cover the protest that involved about 10,000 people. “We stated that the risk analysis for Sunday did not hold water. The tolerance thresholds concerning violence against the police were sufficiently determined,” reacted Vincent Houssin, president of the union.

“Yesterday, 28 cops were injured. We turn here to the administrative authorities, who hold an important obligation and should assume responsibility for the application of the law,” he adds. According to the union, the protest should never have been held.

Close: “I formally refute”

Contacted by us, Philippe Close, the mayor of Brussels, asserts that this absence of order is “false”. “I formally refute this. After the incidents at Porte de Naur, we gave instructions to charge directly. I am ready to confront the point of view of anyone. We are not under a dictatorship; I can understand the critics. But I strongly dislike this process of testifying anonymously.”

The socialist adds that he was at the side of the corps commander from 3pm to 9pm, and that he therefore took into account everything that occurred in making timely decisions. “How could you imagine that I would prefer that windows be broken and police injured? That’s ridiculous; it is defamation.”

Ilse Van de Keer, spokesperson for the police zone, asserts that the corps commander gave the order to intervene and charge from the first incidents.

6 thoughts on “Brussels Police Ordered Not to Defend the City Against BLM Rioters

  1. Brussels Police Ordered Not to Defend the City Against BLM Rioters

    Are they all black or most of them are those whose Allah has promised them that all earth is yours after your enemies become stupid, confused, emasculated and dull.

    Over the last 60 years so-called western democracies had the same attitude of indecisiveness, just get elected, that’s all that matters.

    LEST WE FORGET !

    BUT WE forgot completely : Did hesitation and faltering and pompous empty words defeat Hitler?

    Get sleepy, be confused, give up quickly, don’t resist evil and carry on jolly well.

    “All terrorists are politely reminded that this is London and whatever you do to us we will drink tea and jolly well carry on”

    The Pirate delights at this attitude. Was this stupidity on one side and determination on the side of the jihadis and the disaffected predicted or prophesied?

  2. The communists are working within all eu, to wipe us out, to destroy our countrys, cultures, replace us us all!!

    This is how portuguese communists are doing it in portugal,

    Read on,

    https://algarvedailynews.com/news/18104-algarve-boat-with-22-north-african-migrants-intercepted-at-vale-do-lobo-beach-sef-suspects-illegal-route

    Can u imaginenyou or me arriving on a beach in boat, some country, no docs, and being put up in hotel, given money, id card, food, health care, apt, clothes schooling,
    These communist social and council workers defending these illegals and claimimg its all ok!!!!!

    Im sick of this [odiferous material]

    Wed be fined, locked up, deported, but no, its free entry for these savages who arrive on rowing boat on a beach.

    Communism must be destroyed, with all leftists anilhated.

    • I agree but how do the elites think they will control these barbarians? Islam does not share power.

  3. Q: What ever happened to tar and feathers?

    A: You need a permit and they are really hard to get.

  4. It looks like a country can resettle just do many racist hostiles in its midst before it collapses. Then again we knew that didn’t we? Image. Turkey was planning to invade the big feminised western EU. Greece that is. Ladies can’t anchor no matter how they screw – things up.

  5. It will take ordinary citizens to punch the clock on a few BLM and Antifa cokehead welfare losers. Maybe from a few opportunely-placed overlook windows.

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