8 Sept 2006

Soldiers Held After Anti-Terrorism Raids

"Belgian police raided 20 army barracks and soldiers' homes across the country yesterday in an investigation into extreme-right activists believed to be operating inside the military, a police source said.

Federal police were hunting for evidence of arms trafficking and membership of groups that incite racial hatred, the source said, adding that e-mails had been found, indicating that there was an organized group operating in the military.

"You can't have people who are in the army and supposed to be protecting democracy being involved in groups like this," the police source said.

Support for the far-right anti-immigrant Vlaams Belang party has grown in Dutch-speaking Flanders and Belgium has seen a recent spate of apparently racist crimes."

More: BBC News Los Angeles Times Gulf News Guardian Unlimited

This is the website of the organization (Bloed, Bodem, Eer, Trouw) the soldiers belong to.

More about Antisemitism in Belgium at the Stephen Roth Institute from the Tel Aviv University

Belgium has a fascist past: Knight's Cross Holder SS-Sturmbannführer Lèon Degrelle Commander of the Wallonie Division, 1943 - 45 picture don't work, but shocking anyway. Even more shocking are the Revisionists.

And of course is Belgium home of the Vlaams Blok/Vlaams Belang. See some pictures here and more here.