Police commission says ban, police riot “improper”
Special to Western Voices
Readers of Western Voices World News were alerted to the politically directed police riot in Brussels, Belgium on September 11th, 2007, when nationalists, among them elected officials, were attacked, beaten and arrested. The nationalists’ crime? Daring to defy the Socialist mayor Freddy Thielemans of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, who, fearful of the surge in support for the nationalist http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5996, had issued a last minute ban on a planned memorial demonstration to honor the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks and warn Europe of the danger of Islamification. The nationalists correctly saw the ban as illegal and purely political, and the ensuing behavior of Thielemans’ police (some of whom who added racial slurs to the violence) totally out of line.
At the time, Western Voices http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1766.
Image: Police in the pay of Socialist politician grab the crotch of Flemish patriot in violent attack on democracyThe outrage was multiplied many times over by activists and media outlets across the Western world, concerned about the desperate attempt to criminalize patriotic dissent by elites who have run out of answers. At last, Committee P, which oversees the Belgian police, launched an investigation and their report has vindicated Vlaams Belang. Significantly, the police were not hung out to dry as so often happens for “following orders”; the Committee cited the orders of the mayor as illegal, a welcome warning to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5661 who seek to violate freedom and justice under the color of law. The politicians, not the police, have the blame for these kinds of illegal actions.
The following report from the Vlaams Belang site appeared in English at Gates of Vienna:
“Committee P” agrees with Vlaams Belang
After a demonstration against the Islamization of Europe was prohibited “at the request of the Communaute Musulmane de Belgique [Committee of Belgian Muslims” by the Brussels PS [Parti Socialiste Mayor Freddy Thielemans on September 11, 2007, a peaceful demonstration in Schuman Square in Brussels was violently beaten down.
In its report, Committee P, which controls the functioning of the police services, came down hard on the (French) police officers and the Brussels mayor, and agreed with Vlaams Belang down the line.
According to Committee P, the demonstration ban had made it difficult for the police to negotiate to a peaceful end of the event. Moreover, the “very poor preparation for this event,” according to the Committee, was due to the fact that Mayor Thielemans banned any contact [by the police with the organizers.
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The same mayor on the day itself “in his capacity as administrative head of police” was also pushing for a speedy arrest of the demonstrators, which is exactly what happened, after 3 minutes and 18 seconds. It is also striking that only French-speaking agents from Namur and Liege were let loose on the demonstrators and gave them orders in French, while the platoons from Antwerp and Ghent remained passive.
All these factors led, according to Committee P, to a chaotic and uncoordinated “action by the police, although they were present with a force majeure of no less than 826 men.” The consequences of all of this are well-known: there was “excessive violence” used; Frank Vanhecke was thrown to the ground up to three times and grabbed in between the legs; Filip Dewinter in this way nearly ended up under the wheels of a police van and had a can of pepper spray pushed in his face; a journalist was bitten by a police dog, and so on.
The approach afterwards in the prison complex was also criticized, among other reasons because of the humiliating treatment of the female Parliamentarians, who were forced to take off their bras (“unnecessary” according to the Committee).
Committee P reached the conclusion that “disciplinary and other measures” should be taken. In a comment, Filip De Man, member of Parliament for Vlaams Belang and a member of the counseling committee P, made it clear that Vlaams Belang is quite satisfied with this report and expressed the hope that next time, however, Vlaams Belang will be allowed to exercise their democratic rights in Brussels.
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