
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
After the terror attacks in Paris, the world's attention turned to an inner-city district of the Belgian capital, Brussels, where several of the attackers came from. Molenbeek has been notorious for many years as a breeding-ground for Islamist extremism - and the Belgian government vowed to "clean it up". But do the authorities really have any plan to prevent the radicalisation of young Belgians? Tim Whewell has been travelling back and forth to Brussels since the Paris attacks to talk to local people as they hold up a mirror to themselves and search for explanations - and attempt to have a dialogue with a sometimes dysfunctional state.
Lode Desmet producing.
4.7
7474 ratings
After the terror attacks in Paris, the world's attention turned to an inner-city district of the Belgian capital, Brussels, where several of the attackers came from. Molenbeek has been notorious for many years as a breeding-ground for Islamist extremism - and the Belgian government vowed to "clean it up". But do the authorities really have any plan to prevent the radicalisation of young Belgians? Tim Whewell has been travelling back and forth to Brussels since the Paris attacks to talk to local people as they hold up a mirror to themselves and search for explanations - and attempt to have a dialogue with a sometimes dysfunctional state.
Lode Desmet producing.
5,402 Listeners
377 Listeners
1,837 Listeners
36 Listeners
786 Listeners
159 Listeners
7,723 Listeners
308 Listeners
105 Listeners
508 Listeners
1,839 Listeners
1,064 Listeners
896 Listeners
74 Listeners
154 Listeners
962 Listeners
1,922 Listeners
1,074 Listeners
44 Listeners
246 Listeners
754 Listeners
75 Listeners
741 Listeners
2,966 Listeners