Terrorist threats in Europe
VOV.VN - People in Belgium and across Europe were stunned by terrorist attacks, which hit Brussels on March 22.
Although disaster scenarios had been prepared, Belgian and European leaders failed to prevent the terrorist attacks from occurring.
Since the Paris attacks in November, 2015, Belgian police have cooperated with French and European police (Europol) in hunting down terrorist suspects in Brussels, which led to the arrest of Salah Abdeslam. But a few days later bomb attacks struck Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station in downtown Brussels, killing or wounding dozens of people.
The attacks, which targeted a highly secured international airport and a metro station near the EU headquarters, were a direct challenge to Belgian and European authorities.
The attacks in Brussels demonstrate the vulnerability of France, Belgium, and other European countries to terror attacks. The fact that Salah Abdeslam’s hideout in Brussels went undetected for 4 months shows that the extremists have a solid network for hiding criminals and have established a terrorism center inside Europe.
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