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BELGIAN POLICE HAVE evacuated hundreds of people from the European Parliament after a suspicious vehicle was spotted nearby.
Media outlet RTL reported that there was a drunk man with weapons in the car.
Parliament spokesman Jaume Duch Guillot said police evacuated three of the parliament’s buildings in Brussels and cordoned off the vehicle.
Belgian media showed a photograph of a police robot moving toward a vehicle in a nearby street.
Duch Guillot said about 500 people has to leave. He said two of the three buildings, used only for administrative purposes, have since been declared safe.
Irish MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan was among those present at the time of the evacuation.
Belgium has been on high alert since the Paris terror attacks last month. There have been a series of police raids on suspected foreign fighters in the city.
Additional reporting: Associated Press
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Handy for Luke to be able to tweet about it when others complain that he’s never there…
The main EP buildings were not concerned. This morning, a man dressed in a fake army uniform was arrested. On searching his Slovakian registered car, weapons (I saw a chainsaw on the street beside the car, which might be counted as a weapon) and petrol were found.
3 EP builings, housing the Communications, Personnel, and part of the IT departments were evacuated, as well as the EC’s DG Justice and many cafes and businesses on rue Montoyer.
Bomb disposal robot brought was brought in to investigate further (apparently the police were still suspicious of something in the car), but it’s still parked on rue Montoyer outside the DG COMM building with a police guard.
As for Ming being evacuated… maybe he was or maybe he wasn’t. His building (WIB) would be in the blast radius, so maybe as a precaution, that building was emptied too – but I don’t think so…
Alan your stealing the journals fire here
It seems that Ming was evacuated from his building. Just received an e-mail from the deputy Secretary General of the EP which mentioned all of the buildings affected.
i think he must be a guy from croatia, his debt was just above the cut of for the waiver!!
Was Ming actually there
Should they get paid for the days they are off ?
Do you get paid for your days off?
I work every day
Hope that they left Phil the Hulk Hogan inside …… only a matter of time ….. tick toc ….
Bong alert?
I’m a bong disposal expert.
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s moment of glory ‘Bomb alert here’
The End
Oh god no. I hope everybody’s ok……
Let us just hope Phil Hogan makes it out O.K.
#Atundercovergarda was worried about three o’clock about Big Phil but I forgot all about the poor fecker. But as it’s Monday he was probably slumming in a five star hotel somewhere.
Folks, when I called for a referendum to fix ownership of irish water (not IW) in public ownership, many people on this forum said it was unnecessary. Indah, JobBridge Joan, Alan Kelly and other td said there was absolutely no plan to privatise water services, and they could not envisage any government privatising it. Now thanks to Rte (amazingly) we know that yet again the government have flat out lied about yet another solemn pledge. In 2013 this Government’s plan was to have councils compete with private operators to provide water services FROM 2017. Now because of all the problems and protest this deadline has been pushed out a few years, but the plan to privatise remains the same and we have again been deceived. This Government no longer has any mandate. Referendum now. Oh, BTW, I am very interested in a head case threatening the European Parliament. I may well head over there myself, shortly :-D
A few of the usual Islamophobes have their draft comments ready just waiting to click on the submit button,hang tight fellas!
LOL!
Dungeon master bator
D-,must try harder
Korwin mikkes handy work
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