Belgium’s National Security Council to hold emergency meeting over incidents with unidentified drones

Drones over Belgium. Brussels calls emergency meeting

The head of the Belgian government, Bart De Wever, agreed with the proposal of the Minister of the Interior and Security, Bernard Quentin, to convene an emergency meeting of the National Security Council in light of incidents involving drones.

According to Censor.NET, Le Soir writes about this.

Meeting planning

The meeting will take place on November 5 or 6.

According to Quentin, the National Crisis Center is closely monitoring the situation at airports in Brussels and the Belgian city of Liège, where drones have been spotted previously.

Drones over Belgium

At the end of October, it was reported that unknown drones were spotted twice over one of Belgium's military bases.
On the night of November 1, several unknown drones were spotted over the Klein-Brogel military airbase in the Belgian province of Limburg.
Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken said that drones spotted over military bases over the weekend were used to spy on F-16 fighter jets and ammunition.
The Belgian Armed Forces have been ordered to shoot down any unidentified drones spotted over military air bases.
On the night of November 5, all flights were temporarily suspended at Brussels Airport due to the discovery of a drone.

Author: Екатерина Людвик