Abascal’s statements come days after an illegal immigrant from Morocco killed local sacristan Diego Valencia and injured four others, including a priest, while he rampaged through two Catholic churches in the Spanish city of Algeciras.
The Prevent programme seems to be, at the very least, in need of serious reform. Until the Shawcross report is released, we won’t know how badly it is broken.
According to the latest opinion issued by the Court of Appeal of Mons, the facts underlying the European arrest warrant do not constitute an offence under Belgian law, and extradition is therefore not justified.
The incident, along with its ripple effects, lays bare a double-failing of the Belgian system: its inadequacy to deal with potentially dangerous individuals and a demoralised law enforcement on the verge of rebellion.
“Yes, citizens of European origin can be the object of racism. And it’s a man who has spent his entire political career on the left who tells you,” the city council member said in his resignation speech.
Following his arrest, Hassan Iquioussen should have been placed in an administrative detention centre. But when the police arrived at his home, he was not there.
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