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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Report: Brussels Neighborhood Is Home To 51 Terror-Linked Groups   
      
   Police in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek have uncovered 51 groups with   
   alleged ties to terror organizations, according to a confidential report   
   released Monday on anti-terror measures in the country.   
      
   More than 8,600 houses and 22,668 residents in the area have been checked by   
   authorities over the past year, according to Belgian newspaper De Morgen. Out   
   of more than 1,600 organizations and businesses in Molenbeek, 102 are   
   suspected of having ties to    
   crime and another 51 are linked to terrorism.   
      
   Authorities have compiled a list of 72  individuals who need to be monitored   
   for their suspected terror connections. The vast majority, 46, still reside in   
   Belgium while 26 are believed to be in Syria. Twenty people on the list are   
   currently in prison.   
      
   A positive finding in the report is that no known cases of Belgians leaving   
   the country to fight in Syria have been reported over the past year.   
      
   Molenbeek rose to fame after the terror attacks in Paris in 2015 and Brussels   
   last year. Both attacks were planned in Molenbeek and several suspects grew up   
   in the neighborhood. The area is known to be the “jihadi capital” of   
   Europe and nearly every    
   attack on the west since the turn of the century has a link to Molenbeek.    
      
   Police in the area collectively called in sick Jan. 6 in protest of long   
   working hours and a shortage of 40 officers. The strike was part of an ongoing   
   dispute since anti-terror measures were increased in 2015.   
      
   “They are talking about an overload of work, which I can understand. Things   
   have not been easy neither in 2015 nor in 2016,” Johan De Becker, the head   
   of the Brussels West police area that includes Molenbeek, told Reuters in a   
   January interview.   
      
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