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Mass Surveillance, Security and Terrorism
-- By ClementLegrand - 09 Dec 2016
The perspective of a potential victim
I remember the morning of the 22 Mars 2016. I was going to the office with my wife, just like every morning. As we were stepping out of the elevator from our apartment in the south of Brussels, I received a notification from the BBC on my phone: “Explosions heard in Brussels Airport”. At this moment we did not realize what was happening, and we did not even consider not going to work. We were in our car, stocked in the usual traffic jam, somewhere in the 4 miles that separate our home from the office, and we were completely shocked about what we were hearing on the radio. Very quickly, while we were still in the car, we received the first videos of the ruins of the airport, still smoking and people fleeing and shouting. When we arrived at the office, located in the heart of Brussels, near the Royal Palace, we learned that another explosion had just occurred at the subway station “Maelbeek”, a stone’s throw away from where we were. Everybody was terrified. We received dozens of messages from our friends and family, asking if we were still alive. Luckily yes, we were.
The following days, chaos took over Brussels. While we were still counting the number of victims, the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA), an agency composed of representatives from the State Security, the Intelligence Services and from the federal government, decided to increase the level of threat to the maximum level. Part of the public transportations where stopped, cultural events and places like cinemas, concert venues where closed. The people
Mass surveillance, Security and Freedom?
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