16-year-old with plans for terrorist attack released: how is that possible? “Decision didn’t happen overnight” | Interior

How is it possible that the 16-year-old radicalized teenager from Leuven, who happily waved an IS flag and had collected materials to make a bomb, is allowed to go home? “Even though the seriousness of the facts is serious, sometimes it is just an added value to be monitored at home,” says Tine Suykerbuyk, juvenile judge in Brussels. She explains on which factors a release depends.