(Brussels Times) The federal prosecutor, Frédéric Van Leeuw, has explained that the service remains fully occupied in the fight against terrorism, although their focus has now shifted towards what he calls “terrorism of inspiration” as opposed to structured terrorism, he told the Sudpresse papers.
The distinction is one of opportunism. Whereas terrorism in the past tended to be a question of structured, organised groups from the IRA and ETA all the way up to the recent past with ISIS and Al Qaeda, the tendency nowadays is more likely to be acts carried out by lone actors who may be inspired by radical ideology, but who do not form part of any organised group.
“Solitary people are less easy to track than structures,” he said.
