Reports of explosions at Brussels Central Station - Belgian troops 'neutralise' man

[David48atTD]

Belgian troops patrolling Brussels Central Station have "neutralised" a person after a small explosion, police said,
adding that there were no other casualties and the situation was under control.

"There was an accident at Central Station. There was an explosion around a person," a police spokesman said.

"That person was neutralised by the soldiers that were on the scene."

"At the moment, the police are in numbers at the station and everything is under control."



He could not confirm media reports that the person had been wearing an explosive vest and it was not clear whether the person shot was still alive.


The station and the adjacent historic downtown area Grand Place square, packed with tourists and locals on a hot summer evening,

were evacuated as police set up a security cordon, witnesses told Belgian media.

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Quick ... someone check on Butters

Reports of explosions at Brussels Central Station - Belgian troops 'neutralise' man
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[Digby Fantona]

Did they use litmus paper or phenolphthalein ?

[CaptainNemo]

Well, welcome to the century of progressive liberal goodism - how long do you think before this tinderbox all kicks off and turns computer-game-gory?

[DrB0b]

Well, welcome to the century of progressive liberal goodism

Not that much different to the terrorist-afflicted 1970s. Indeed in my experience considerably safer.

[baldrick]

does blue think one of these is a immigrant terrorist ?

[CaptainNemo]

Well, welcome to the century of progressive liberal goodism

Not that much different to the terrorist-afflicted 1970s. Indeed in my experience considerably safer.

I think that all depends on where you are. The threats and events were a bit different in key aspects in the 70s.
The problem now is possibly less the conflagration of low-tech nihilism, but the state response to it.
It's reaching a sort of philosophical endpoint where all the sophisticated ways of doing things are closed off, and you are just left with everything that can't be policed without shutting down free society and having a chilling effect on the way people interact with each other. The end result does not seem likely to be "cohesion", "unity", and "inclusion", just yet more FUD, and a more economically, ethnically, and socially polarised, balkanised, and ghettoised arena. In a sense, the conflict is within the host state - London is in a war of values with much of the rest of England, and seems to be on the verge of imposing Pax Londonica, which seems likely to only alienate further.

[HermantheGerman]

Well, welcome to the century of progressive liberal goodism

Not that much different to the terrorist-afflicted 1970s. Indeed in my experience considerably safer.

Make up your mind !

I think it's you who needs to get out a bit more if you consider the recent disasters in the UK "little mishaps".

"Hear ye, hear ye!"

In the mean time an Islamic terror attack occurs every day.
The recent Paris attack got no attention at all from our progressive Apologists. I guess only U.K. terror counts

[wasabi]

Thank goodness nobody got killed, the European attacks have been underreported because the English media is narcissistic.

[Pragmatic]

The recent Paris attack got no attention at all from our progressive Apologists. I guess only U.K. terror counts

I agree HtG. The folks in the UK must be getting pissed off lately with all those one minute silence stoppages. So it's now limited to events in the UK.

[wasabi]

It's apparently just me that's getting pissed off with all the minutes silences, I need to find out who ORDERS these mass one minute silences.
Men from the ministry, is there a very special department that specifically orders the public silences?
Where can I find them?
Get them shut down due to cutbacks and austerity. Waste of time and money they are.

[Norton]

Time for the US to ban travel from these bloody terrorist breeding ground countries. What ya think butters?