Belgium tightens security after failed Brussels bombing
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The weapons are increasingly ordinary — rented vehicles, nails and canisters, store-bought knives. A series of small-scale attacks has left Europeans trying to balance their desire not to give in to extremism with a persistent anxiety that it could strike at any time.
Even though a nail bomb didn’t fully go off in Brussels Central Station late Tuesday and failed to hit dozens of commuters close by, it didn’t stop fear going up a further notch.
And across Western Europe where the summer tourism season is about to start, the challenge is how to deal with it without having a big impact on daily life.
“We have to see in what kind of society we want to live in,” said Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon. “Today it is train stations. Tomorrow all subway stations and the day after all city halls. Will we have to arm, protect, control all that? Is that the type of society we want,” he asked.
Still, for Wednesday at least, more security was the way to go.
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