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As you say, all should be revealed at his hearing; although his twitter account is still up, it seems that a number of tweets have been deleted.
This is the section of the 1986 Public order act under which he has been charged:-
Hopkins stuff seems more likely to contravene the 2006 Racial & religious hatred act.

Charges dropped Via Met Police Tweets.

Mxxxx Dxxxx, 46 (30.12.69) of South Croydon was charged by police on Friday, 25 March, with an offence under Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Following discussion with the Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Doyle is no longer charged with the offence and will not be appearing at court.

Police may not make charging decisions on offences under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.

There will be further consultation with CPS.
 


Charges dropped Via Met Police Tweets.

Mxxxx Dxxxx, 46 (30.12.69) of South Croydon was charged by police on Friday, 25 March, with an offence under Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Following discussion with the Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Doyle is no longer charged with the offence and will not be appearing at court.

Police may not make charging decisions on offences under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.

There will be further consultation with CPS.
Fucking shambles from OB.
 


Charges dropped Via Met Police Tweets.

Mxxxx Dxxxx, 46 (30.12.69) of South Croydon was charged by police on Friday, 25 March, with an offence under Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Following discussion with the Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Doyle is no longer charged with the offence and will not be appearing at court.

Police may not make charging decisions on offences under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.

There will be further consultation with CPS.
Surprise surprise.

Fucking idiots.
 
Uh oh...
A security officer at a Belgian nuclear plant has been found dead with his work pass stolen. This disturbing development, revealed by the newspaperDerniere Heure on Saturday, follows concerns that the Brussels bombers wanted to build a radioactive dirty bomb — but apparently shelved the plan after security was stepped up at Belgium’s nuclear plants following intelligence warnings.

The security officer was murdered on Thursday evening as he walked his dog in the city of Charleroi, but news of the killing only emerged on Saturday. His pass was quickly cancelled, according to officials.
 
Just heard reports Belgium police have shot a man with explosives in a bag. Can't see any reports on BBC yet but apparently it is on yahoo news
 
I saw reports and photos of that yesterday. Sky is reporting it as today. Photos look the same as yesterday's site.

I expect a correction from Reuters or whoever shortly.

Now says "Friday". Grim story:

One man was shot and wounded by police in Brussels on Friday after failing to respond to demands to raise his arms.

The man, wearing a backpack, was shot in the leg as he stood with a young girl, thought to be his daughter.

Sky's Mark Stone said it is now thought the shooting may have been in error and that the man failed to respond to police because he did not understand French or Flemish.
 
The bloke may be an arsehole but if the police trashed his gaff and confiscated his gear, he has a point.
 
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Seems to be a few things happening at Doel Nuclear Power station in the last few months.
Doel Nuclear Power Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doel Nuclear Power Station
The station is located in the most densely populated area of all nuclear power stations in Europe, with 9 million inhabitants within a radius of 75 kilometres (47 mi)
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Security
A transformer feeding the non-operating Reactor 1 exploded October 31, 2015 causing a small fire.[20][21][22] Early investigations ruled out foul play as a cause.[21][22]

In December 2015, police found that a camera had been set up outside the house of a SCK•CEN nuclear researcher to track their movements, raising fears of extortion of nuclear industry workers.[23] Seven people had their access to the Doel facility revoked after the 2016 Brussels police raids in March 2016,[24][25] and during the 2016 Brussels bombings, the Doel facility was evacuated, along with the Tihange Nuclear Power Station.[26]

On 25 March 2016, a G4S security guard for the National Institute of Radio-elements (IRE) in Fleurus died in a shooting when he walked with his dog in Charleroi.[27][28] His security cards were stolen.[29][30][31] The cards, which give access to nuclear sites in Belgium, were deactivated shortly after the killing was discovered.[27][28] Belgium denied that the guard's death was terror related
 
Some interesting points made here:

This doesn’t seem to be happening as much to other Muslim communities in Belgium. What about the Turkish minority, which also counts several hundred thousand people?

There’s a clear difference between the Moroccan and Turkish communities. We have very few if any Turks on the list of at-risk individuals. So it’s not about Islam, because the Turks are Sunni Muslims also. And I don’t remember my colleagues at the federal police mentioning one Turkish name. In Schaerbeek, for example, the population is predominantly Moroccan and Turkish, and it’s very clear: you have no momentum in the Turkish population to join IS. And this is probably associated with a certain type of identity construction in the Turkish community. They tend to be specifically attached to their language, more than anything else, which limits the exposure to Wahhabi proselytism. I think that money from Gulf countries has done a lot of damage in Moroccan mosques in Belgium on that level. Some mosques have been more and more under the sway of Saudi imams or of Moroccan-Belgian citizens who have been trained in and funded by Saudi Arabia and who are spreading Wahhabi doctrine. Most Turkish mosques, to my knowledge, are financed and managed by the Diyanet institution, largely associated with the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. And then, there is also the secularist heritage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk of course, which probably still plays a part at some level too.

I expect they're expanded upon in theis timely report from the same body: Facing the fourth foreign fighters wave. What drives Europeans to Syria, and to Islamic state? Insights from the Belgian case
 
Some interesting points made here:



I expect they're expanded upon in theis timely report from the same body: Facing the fourth foreign fighters wave. What drives Europeans to Syria, and to Islamic state? Insights from the Belgian case

There's also a report here (in French) Belgo-Marocains, Belgo-Turcs (auto)portrait de nos concitoyens worth reading broadly backs up your points

In both groups over the past ten years around 50% say their religious belief/observation has intensified, under 10% say it has decreased.

De plus, une partie importante de nos répondants appartenant aux deux groupes (49% dans chaque échantillon) estime que leur conviction religieuse s’est fortifiée au cours des dix dernières années. Cela représente une légère hausse par rapport à 2009 pour le groupe des Belgo-Marocains car ils n’étaient que 45% à affirmer la même chose à cette époque61. Cependant, ils sont également nombreux (un peu plus de 40%) à estimer que leur croyance est restée inchangée au cours de la même période, et très peu à estimer qu’elle s’est affaiblie (moins de 10%).

On the Turks in Belgium it doesn't mention that a large - very large part of the Turks in Belgium come from originally Afyonkarahisar families a western Turkey but rural region, its politics are pretty nationalist were even more so in the past - the nationalist far right party got 25% of the vote in the June elections.

Diyanet Belcika as mentioned above is a very nationalist form of Islam it will happily devote whole mosque evenings to honour the memory of Ottoman soldiers who fought in the first world war. It has officially 65 main Belgian mosques/Islamic centres under its wing.

Its stated aim is "- Çocuklarımıza Müslüman Türk kültürünü, milli ve manevi değerlerini kazandırmak," to secure for our children Muslim Turkish culture and its national and spiritual values.

One upshot of this is for instance just under a week ago, a group of young Turks in Brussels arsonised a Kurdish rights tent (if you listen their slogan is a Muslim one 'ya allah bisminlah') but their direction of this religios/national feeling is against a specific 'other', not a general Belgian/Flemish 'other'.

It's worth investigating why Turkish state has this national network buffer but Moroccan state doesn't. For Turkey in the 1960s, there was a fear that 'Kurdishism' was being injected into workers in Sweden and Germany, so there was a big effort to try and stop future generations coming under any kind of sway that would undermine the unitary-national idea. I don't think Morocco had the same pressures and so did not feel so concerned, its emigrants were surplus rural poor from north Morocco but there was no major threat to the unity of the state - in fact with Western assistance it became increasingly concerned with trying to swallow Sahrawia - an aim whose biggest backer in the Arab League was Saudi Arabia.
 
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Some interesting points made here:


They tend to be specifically attached to their language, more than anything else, which limits the exposure to Wahhabi proselytism.
I expect they're expanded upon in theis timely report from the same body: Facing the fourth foreign fighters wave. What drives Europeans to Syria, and to Islamic state? Insights from the Belgian case

I think the language angle is a red herring here butchers, Sharia4Belgium the main recruiters for ISIS in Belgium, recruit from non arabic speaking converts too, Keenan Maliks twitter feed has a link to an interview with one such arrested returnee.
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I have heard from a witness that the Brussels attacks were celebrated in the Principe neighbourhood of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in Morocco. Cars paraded around honking their horns the way they do when a football team wins an important match.
 
Man shot in Brussels rail station amid bomb belt claims - BBC News

Just breaking, looks like something averted at Brussels railway station...

BBC said:
A man has triggered a small explosion in Brussels Central Station, a spokesman for the Belgian federal police told the BBC.

The man was shot by soldiers inside the station and no-one else is believed to have been injured.

Police say the situation is under control. The station and the city's Grand Place were evacuated.

In March 2016, 32 people died in attacks on Brussels claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

According to Belgian newspaper La Libre, quoting prosecutors, the man who was shot was wearing a rucksack and a bomb belt.

He detonated a device when he attracted the attention of soldiers in the station, the paper says.

Brussels Central Station is one of three main terminals in the city.
 
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