Welcome to Molenbeek.
Judge Isabelle Panou, red cheeks and tongue hanging out, knows this district of Brussels like the back of his hand:
"There is not a street that I have not searched",
reveals the magistrate who instructed the Belgian section of the investigation into the attacks of November 13, 2015. Adding:
"Of its six neighborhoods, three do not pose too many problems."
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Molenbeek, from the workers' city to the community ghetto
But there are the other three, who have seen a good part of the accused pass, plus terrorists who are now dead or supposed to be dead.
Salah Abdeslam and his box neighbor, Mohamed Abrini, alias the "man in the hat", Abdellah Chouaa, close to the previous one, Ali Oulkadi, best friend of Brahim Abdeslam, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged sponsor of the killings neutralized on November 17, 2015 in Saint-Denis, Oussama Atar alias “Abou Ahmed”, undoubtedly dead in Syria, the brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, suicide bombers of the Brussels airport and metro, passed through Molenbeek,
“100,000 inhabitants, including 50% of Moroccan origin
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