Belgium built a state that couldn’t catch terrorists just so that Flemings and Walloons couldn’t rule each other.

Six governments for 11 million people, split by language, each running its own police and intelligence, and no agency with full authority.

When Turkey warned the Interior Ministry in 2015 that Ibrahim El Bakraoui was a foreign fighter, the warning went nowhere as he bombed Brussels Airport.

Molenbeek’s Socialist mayor Philippe Moureaux admitted he knew about the radicalization but didn’t call federal services, because that community was his voter base.

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