Slik skjer det - politi omringet i Brussel

Bel­gisk politi for­søkte å hånd­heve loven da de ba en til­slørt kvinne ta av seg. Hun rea­gerte med å skalle ned den kvin­ne­lig betjen­ten. En mobb på et hundre­tall gikk der­etter amok og belei­ret den lokale politistasjonen.

Hen­del­sen inn­traff i byde­len Mol­len­bek i Brus­sel tors­dag. Den sier noe om hvor lett­an­ten­ne­lig situa­sjo­nen er, når poli­tiet skal hånd­heve lover som bry­ter med sha­ria. Den som nek­ter å føye seg, vet at han/hun har rygg­dek­ning og at disse mil­jø­ene kan mobi­li­sere. Det er en helt ny situa­sjon som euro­pe­iske lov­gi­vere og ordens­makt en er helt ufor­be­redt på.

Brus­sels police came under attack on Thurs­day after they arrested a Mus­lim woman who refu­sed to rem­ove her face veil.

Pro­te­sters threw metal bar­riers and trash cans at a police sta­tion in Molenbeek. The dist­rict of the Bel­gian capi­tal has a high num­ber of Mus­lim immigrants.

Bel­gium and France passed laws last year that ban the wea­ring of full-face veils in public.

Johan Debecker, the head of Brussels-West police aut­hority, said the unna­med woman became aggres­sive during questioning.

“She head-butted our policewo­man and the policewo­man now has a bro­ken nose,” he told reporters.

Some 100 people sur­roun­ded Molenbeek police sta­tion late on Thurs­day night, with scuf­f­les breaking out.

Phil­lippe Mour­eaux, the town mayor, said an extreme Isla­mist group, Sharia4Belgium, was behind the trouble.

Sharia4Belgium issued a state­ment on its web­site on Fri­day, condem­ning what it cal­led “a ter­ro­rist attack of Brus­sels’ assas­si­na­tion squads”.

Last month, an Antwerp court jai­led the group’s spo­kes­man Fouad Bel­kacem for two years for inci­ting racial hatred against non-Muslims.

Brus­sels police attacked by Isla­mists: mayor