The officer fired after "floating" threat letter from the EI

Two weeks after the serious attacks in Paris in 2015, the world was on the lookout for possible other terrorist actions. The fact that a letter of threat of IS was hung at the entrance of a Belgian police station was therefore not taken lightly.

It now appears that this letter was tinkered by a police inspector from the competent Heist-op-den supervisory board. -Berg: Office supplies betrayed the servant. The man is fired, but he denies it.

& # 39; Sale fags & # 39;

On the letter, an A4 with the symbol of the Islamic State and the Syrian flag, was under the heading "Sale dirty". two names of members of the police team and their registration plates

Due to the increase in the level of threat and suspicion of wanting to carry out attacks on agents, the alarms are are triggered immediately after finding the letter. Should agents be afraid of their lives?

Computer Known

But the agents were stupid when it came to light during the investigation that the computer on which the letter was written was well known: it came from the commissioner's office . The newspaper and the printer also published a lot of information because they were also coming from the Heist-op-den-Berg office.

The badge of the agent Andy V. also showed that the twenties in the night of the appearance of threatening letter twelve minutes in the newsroom where things stood: just enough time to put the letter together. In suppressing the searches, the young officer was even more suspicious

Work and Resignation

The officer was initially sentenced to community service, but had been acquitted because the letter was vague and he was not allowed. There was no doubt of a crime, writes Het Nieuwsblad. The man could not, however, avoid a dismissal

"He should have known that with the slightest and slightest hint of threat everything would have come out of the closet," according to the State Council. "In addition, as a police officer, he also serves as an example.The facts – even if they were to be heard only as a joke – are absolutely inadmissible."

The former agent continues to deny and fight the dismissal with his lawyer.