In Belgium, the guard shot “Tihange” NPP – BBC

In the Belgian town of Charleroi shot security officer NPP “Tihange” newspaper Derniere Heure. “The guard was shot dead on Thursday evening during a walk with the dog. His pass was stolen “, – says the publication. Police sources confirmed this information. Local media also reported that police reports the killing takes place as “attempted robbery”, and later the police ruled out a terrorist trail in this matter. Nevertheless, in Belgium, have not yet departed from the terrorist attacks, any news of this kind are seen keenly.

NPP “Tihange”, located in the south of Belgium, in the province of Liège, was one of the objects on which the evacuation was carried out immediately after the explosions in Brussels. It is this nuclear power plant was the original purpose of the Belgian terrorists – brothers Ibrahim and Khaled Bakraui and their accomplice Nadzhima Laashraui. However, after the arrest of another member of their group, the main suspect in the terrorist attacks in Paris Salah Abdeslama, the three decided to hurry and instead NPP attacked the airport and the metro.

From the moment of arrest Abdeslama law enforcers started gradually withdraw passes to power some of its employees, it was done for security reasons.

With the same intentions even before the terrorist attacks on March 21 outside security “Tihange” NPP has been strengthened group of army special forces numbering 140

. <-! place 8143049, / social / 2016/03/25 / 8143049.shtml, nm2015 / v2 / article / incut, incut1_link ->

law enforcement officers also learned that the brothers Bakraui in December installed a hidden camera in front of the house of the head of the Belgian nuclear program – they studied and filmed the approaches to the house and the main nuclear scientist routes. Dozens of hours of video from surveillance hidden camera police found in the course of the antiterrorist operation in the apartment of another member of the same terrorist cell and a suspect in the Paris attacks Mohamed Bakkal (his name appeared in a farewell note Ibrahim Bakraui, which he left in the computer, detected in an urn on the second the day after the attacks).

Earlier, the EU coordinator of this week on anti-terror Gilles de Kerskhov acknowledged that the terrorist cyber attack can be applied against the Belgian nuclear power plants. “New technologies allow even a lone commit terrorist acts on a large scale. Even five years ago, attempts were made to introduction of remote monitoring and collection system for managing nuclear power plants data, air control or management of the railways movement “, – he told in an interview with” La Meuse »

The head of the union of the Belgian Ministry of Interior. Vincent Gilles told “Gazeta.ru” that law enforcement officers “with high probability” to know that Belgium will soon be a terrorist attack. ” “But we did not know where or when exactly it will be. Came reports that terrorists might attack the army barracks, building of the Investigative Department of the Police, the NPP, the airport and the subway, “- he said,

In total, Belgium has seven nuclear reactors. two nuclear power plants – “Tihange” not far from Liege and “blew” near Antwerp

<-.! place 8138579, / social / 2016/03/23 / 8138579.shtml, nm2015 / v2 / article / incut, incut2_link ->

They are operated by the company Electrabel, a subsidiary of the French energy concern GDF Suez. “There was a” nuclear power plant – one of the oldest in Europe, it was launched in 1974. In 2012, on the body of one of the power units of the nuclear power plant thousands of cracks were found, but after examination, the reactor was restarted

In 2014, nuclear power plants, “blowing” was a diversion:. Unknown offender leaked from the steam turbine system 65 th. liters of oil to the emergency reservoir, leading to overheat the turbine and damage it. Workers Power had to urgently stop the work of one of the units, and in this incident, it would seem, has been exhausted. Responsible for the accident and have not found, but the investigation revealed that the former technician of this station is among the fighting in Syria Belgian Islamists.

At the same time he himself a diversion could not : it is known that at the time of the incident he was outside the country.

However, even three years before the diversion Belgian authorities stated their readiness to abandon nuclear power by 2015, it was supposed to stop the three most old nuclear reactor. However, the Belgian authorities decided to continue its operation for fear of power shortage. It is not excluded that the Brussels attacks forced the government to speed up the process of eliminating nuclear weapons program.