Europe was hit in the heart

brussels - All of Europe is directly affected in the heart could not have said better French President Francois Hollande. The European Commission Zaventem airport and a few hundred meters and the Council of Ministers have suicide bombers from Islamic State of Europe changed forever.

The counter is provisionally at 34 dead and over 230 wounded, but the real damage is infinitely greater. The safe way of life that we have long known in Europe for decades no longer exists. Madrid, London, Copenhagen, Paris, Brussels: the list of mega-attacks is getting longer and the number of innocent deaths.

Since the terrorist attacks so deeply affect the everyday lives of ordinary Europeans, it is getting closer. Can I travel by public transport or plane, I can sit at an outdoor cafe on a busy square, my children are safe at school, in which European Capital detonated the bomb next? What do the intelligence services really do?

Brussels asked the citizens themselves yesterday and with them all in Europe. The attacks were a blow to the Belgian capital. The triumph over the arrest of Salah Abdeslam faded into the dust cloud of the explosion, he was not alone. Terror organizations have infiltrated much broader in Europe than the intelligence to have thought possible, it is now clear.

Yesterday morning, Brussels was a series of loud bangs up, two bombs at the airport, one of a nail bomb, was followed by an explosion in the subway a few steps from the European buildings.

Military doctor Eric Mergny was immediately on the spot conducted in Zaventem. 'This is worse than what I experienced in Afghanistan. We had to amputate body parts that were riddled with debris and metal particles. These were wounds as you find in a real war. 'The balance was 14 dead and 106 wounded.

But the attack on the subway in Maalbeek would prove even bloodier, 20 dead and 130 wounded. The narrow space and the huge amount of explosives caused a deadly shock wave.

In raids yesterday afternoon in Brussels were nail bombs, chemicals and found an IS flag. From the house in Schaerbeek, the three perpetrators of the attack on the airport in Zaventem left. Meanwhile, Islamic State has claimed the attacks in an email that demonstrates sufficient knowledge of the course of events to be taken seriously.

The Belgian government responded immediately by setting terror level 4 public life came to a standstill and there was a heavy traffic nightmare. The airport remains closed in the coming days, later in the afternoon public transport went away again, but when it actually was too late. Empty planes left Brussels airport, shopkeepers feared empty streets and hotels are worried that tourists for a very long time to go stay away.