After terror suspects arrested: great surprise in Roeselare and Menen

The local police were not involved in the action, so the cities are awaiting information from the court. Roeselare and Menen have been running projects to counter radicalization since the attacks in Brussels.

As coordinator of security, radicalization and polarization in Menen, Luc Claeys works closely with youth welfare workers, but no one in the field suspected that three residents were plotting an attack. However, since the attacks in Brussels, the city has focused more on tackling radicalization. They also receive Flemish resources for this.

And local governments try to reach young people very early on.

“We also have projects running in education where we are already working on polarization at a young age from the fifth and sixth grade. We have a nice workshop on this in which we work with a comic strip,” it sounds.

Menen does this together with Wevelgem, where a terrorist suspect has also been arrested.