Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
Belgian Minister of Justice Vincent van Quickenborn is currently under further security measures following a new threat. The minister commented, "We are kind of used to it."
In a video he posted on social media, the minister added, "My wife, children, and I are fine. We are safe. We are getting used to it a little bit now, but that does not mean that it is good. What is happening to us, of course, has something to do with our country's struggle against organized crime. A battle we investigated." Great successes in recent years
He also expressed his respect and gratitude to the police and judiciary who "dedicate every day to a safe society."
The minister continued: "What is happening now will in no way distract me from the changes we are making to make our justice more humane, faster and more punitive." "Thank you for the many messages of support, it means a lot to us."
At the end of last October, the Dutch authorities agreed to hand over four Dutch nationals to the Belgian justice, after the latter demanded them to face charges related to the attempt to kidnap the Belgian Minister of Justice. The security services responded to the Belgian request, and the accused were arrested at the end of last September in the cities of The Hague and Leidschendam. . According to media reports, the Belgian police had found a car containing weapons near the minister's residence. The suspects may have intended to use them in their crime, but they fled before implementation.
And it was decided to tighten security measures around the residence of the Belgian Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborn, after the Federal Prosecutor's Office announced last September that the minister had received a threat at his address. Meanwhile, three suspects have already been arrested and the Belgian minister commented, "We will never give in to violence."
The Public Prosecutor's Office had immediately launched an investigation and the necessary measures were taken and the Minister was placed under strict security measures.
According to local media, the threat came from the international drug environment. Some newspapers also quoted the minister's comment on these developments, in which he stated that the threat to him in person as Minister of Justice, but his wife and children, is not their fault, but they have to bear the consequences, adding that what happened "strengthens my conviction that we must continue to fight. Criminals feel trapped. This feeling is true. Because we are We will continue to fight organized crime, with more manpower and resources than before.” He noted that the policemen suffer from threats every day, as well as the judiciary and others, but this is their destiny because they perform their national duty and all of them are heroes in their constitutional and democratic state.