(Brussels Times) Security services have informed the Belgian prison system about a right-wing extremist staff member and another with radical Islamic tendencies.
Criminal proceedings have been started against both, according to reporting from Belga News Agency.
Belgium’s federal Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) said that the guard with extreme-right sympathies is already on the watchlist of the country’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA), but did not release any more details about the individual.
The recruitment procedure for employees of the prison system includes a check of an applicant’s criminal background, and a 2019 law on the status of prison officers stipulates that upon recruitment, the applicant is subjected to a “morality check.”
