As police in Belgium round up people suspected of some tangential involvement in the Friday Paris attack, a Europe-wide manhunt is being lost for the man who may well have been the only survivor among those “directly involved” in the deadly ISIS attacks.
The man, identified as Salah Abdeslam, was the renter of a Volkswagen Polo which was abandoned in the area near the attack, and was actually stopped by police early Saturday morning, in the aftermath of the attacks, though police questioned and released him at the time.
The 26-year-old Abdeslam is believed to have been directly involved because his brother was one of the suicide attackers. A third brother was arrested, but his links to the attack are as-yet-unclear. The car he was stopped in on Saturday was heading for Belgium, and speculation is he may have gotten out of France.
Though France itself closed its border in the wake of the attack, most of the EU has not, meaning Abdeslam could by now be virtually anywhere within the continent. Belgium is believed to be the site where the attack was planned, leading Belgian Premier Charles Michel to promise a crackdown on a Muslim neighborhood there.
"…promise a crackdown on a Muslim neighborhood…"
Just one neighborhood? You mean all the Muslims who've immigrated to Belgium live in one neighborhood? Well, that should make containment easier…if it were true. Once the Belgian authorities start cracking down on their "one" neighborhood of Muslims, I'll guess the other enclaves will take notice. And before you know it, the entire Muslim population in Belgium will be under "crackdown" and then in France and Germany…and let's not forget the relatively large contingent in the UK. The Crusades are going to have nothing on the 21st century version.
When the dust settles a century from now, the first thing the survivors will need to do is outlaw religion. That's just this old curmudgeon's opinion…but by then, I really won't give a ratsass either way.
No, but there are no Muslim "enclaves" as such. Since Europe's Muslims are mostly poor, they live in ordinary working class housing estates where lots of other people live too.
If you're "heading for Belgium", you probably still are in France, or Holland or Luxembourg or Germany, or driving your car across the English Channel or flying it from almost anywhere else.
The inanity of some of the garbage we're fed as news is degenerating – to those who write it, and to the readers. Better we hear nothing than clap tap passing for fact. At times like this the NEED to say, or write, something is trumped by poor sense.
Correction: France hasn't closed its borders, it has simply imposed border controls. I haven't actually seen what they're doing, but I would guess that they're walking through trains and slowing traffic down to a crawl at border crossings while they look for anyone who's "travelling while dark-skinned". The Schengen Agreement set up a common information system for all Schengen area police forces. Thus, this fellow is every bit as likely (but no more likely) to be caught in another Member State as in France. In fact, if the guy has any sense, he'll sit tight in France until the storm blows over. Police mobilised to carry out frontier checks means less police doing other work.
" leading Belgian Premier Charles Michel to promise a crackdown on a Muslim neighborhood there."
That's it! When Tim McVeigh was a suspect I suppose Catholic neighbourhoods were targeted.
This man has served the purpose of his CIA puppet masters pulling
his strings from behind the scene. He will likely turn up somewhere
with a bullet in back of his head.
The garbage MSM can't get enough of this crap.
We need some Luc Besson movie on this