Filed Under: Not My Job

Sure glad it can’t happen here. Our locally elected officials are nothing like this:

Just four weeks before the carnage in Paris, a list of nearly 100 suspected Islamic militants – many with links to Syria – was passed to the mayor of the Molenbeek, the Brussels district that now stands at the heart of the web of terror linking the atrocities in France and Belgium.

Provided by Belgium’s security services, it included not only the names but also the addresses of men who were to become pivotal in the bloodshed and horror in Brussels and Paris.

For among those on the list of militants in Molenbeek and Schaerbeek, another district of Brussels that has emerged as a haven for terrorists, was failed Paris suicide bomber Salah Abdeslam, his brother Brahim, who blew himself up during the November 13 attacks that killed 130 in the French capital, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader in Paris and Najim Laachraoui, one of the Brussels airport bombers….

…Disturbingly at the time the list was passed to her, Molenbeek’s mayor Françoise Schepmans clearly did not realise its significance, telling an interviewer:

‘What was I supposed to do about them? It is not my job to track possible terrorists. It is the responsibility of the federal police.’

I’ll be watching curiously to see what her chances of re-election look like whenever that comes up. In that neck of the woods, she might do pretty well. Or, like, Flint or something.

2 Responses to “Filed Under: Not My Job”

1. JeffS says:

   March 25, 2016 at 9:24 am

   That is denial. Whether it’s from complacency driven by decadence and incompetence, or due to the intellectual ham stringing from political correctness, that’s another topic. But she refused to even consider the possibility that there may be a problem in her town.

2. aelfheld says:

   March 26, 2016 at 8:05 pm

   She probably has the Muhammadan vote.