2023-10-23 16:23:00
The attack perpetrated Monday in Brussels by Abdesalem Lassoued, our experienced agent and his colleagues saw it as a failure. “It’s clearly a failure. We felt we weren’t at our best. Some even cried. We do not have the intelligence culture in Belgium. With the reform, we wanted to become experts in surgical operations but we forgot about small operations in the field. They wanted to make us counter-terrorism specialists, forgetting the proactive and non-reactive role of State Security. We must be the ears and eyes of society but unfortunately, we are no longer on the ground. However, the means were given to us after the attacks of 2016 but they were poorly exploited,” denounces this agent.
“The measures announced will be of no use, no one wants to work in the mess that is this Brussels prosecutor’s office which has become bloodless”
An unprecedented crisis
Starting with this new computer system, operational since June. “We are hearing about launch flaws but it has been going on for months already. This system, for which several million euros were donated to a non-profit organization responsible for developing it, is a real disaster. Where before we needed 3 steps for information, we now need double that. The authorities can continue to deny the problem, it is the security of the country that is at stake here!” our agent exclaims again.
Resignation of Van Quickenborne: an extradition request sent to the public prosecutor’s office in Brussels, but no one to respond…
Informed of the internal flaws and complaints, federal deputy Denis Ducarme (MR) requested a report from Committee R on the reliability of this new State Security system. “Given what we are going through, we cannot afford approximations in the reliability of such a system which is the heart of the work of our anti-terrorist services. We are still talking here about the management of hyper-sensitive and crucial data in the fight against terrorism,” insists Denis Ducarme.
For his part, our agent speaks of an unprecedented crisis within State Security.” We have already had political and other crises that impacted us, but never such frustration internally, within the agents themselves! We are all passionate about our job but here we are facing dysfunctions that must be improved urgently, everyone’s safety is at stake!”
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