" Welcome home !
proclaims the wooden panel affixed to the elegant brick building of the “Maison des Béguines”, while on the ground floor, a volunteer is busy sweeping between the tables.
"Bravo, it's lively!"
greets a resident, all smiles and outstretched arms, her dog pulling hard on its leash.
“Let's say that I knew before…”, she specifies, alluding to the “Café des Béguines” in Molenbeek.
A place of sinister memory then held by Brahim Abdeslam, who died as a suicide bomber on November 13, 2015 in Paris and where, behind the smells of cannabis and petty trafficking, the worst attacks ever known in France and Belgium were being prepared in secret. .
A sad symbol, since transformed into a social center devoted, in particular, to tutoring.
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