The EU Parliament has belatedly woken up to the fact that Brussels airport and train stations are not the only places in the city who could be harbouring cleaners with jihadist intentions. One of its former janitors Najim Laachraoui later blew himself upduring the Brussels airport attack. He was also implicated in preparing suicide vests in the Paris attack. He worked in the Parliament complex for over six months.
Lode Vanoost a former deputy speaker at the parliament highlights this possible security nightmare. He said the problem wasn't just confined to the parliament but to all the buildings associated with the running of thee EU structures of governance.
He said outdated employment procedures were allowing the employment of people of dubious character to get such employment. Security checks are lax if indeed ever carried out.
Mr Vanoost said "Actually there is two sides to it, on the one hand who do you employ as cleaners the menial jobs in all those buildings and what and then how do you value what a security liability they are.
Actually the reality is that as long as social conditions are such you cannot guarantee security because we are not willing to pay these people and they are not willing to say ok to this people before you can work there are you willing to wait a few weeks. The procedure is so outdated its outrageous.
I am not going to say that this is something typically Belgian or whatever, because even France with their so called professional security service have not been able to prevent all these horrible attacks"
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