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Bloed-Bodem-Eer en Trouw (BBET; "Blood, Soil, Honour and Loyalty") is a Flemish neo-Nazi group, created in 2004 from a splinter of the Flemish branch of the international Nazi skinhead organization Blood & Honour.

The group rose to public prominence in September 2006, after 17 members (including 11 soldiers) were arrested under the December 2003 anti-terrorist laws and laws against racism, anti-semitism and negationism. According to the Justice Minister and the Interior Minister, Patrick Dewael, the suspects (11 of whom were military members) were preparing terrorist attacks in order to "destabilize" Belgium.

Police (150 agents) searched five military barracks in Bourg-Léopold in the Limburg province near the Dutch border, Kleine-Brogel, Peer, Bruxelles (Ecole royale militaire) and Zedelgem. Police also searched 18 private residences in Flanders. They found military weapons, ammunition, explosives, and a homemade bomb large enough to "blow up a car". Led by Thomas Boutens, the group trained itself inside military fields. It also trained in interrogation and counter-interrogation techniques, as well as in becoming clandestine.

The group was engaged in arms dealing, and one of the suspects worked in Kleine-Brogel military base where United States nuclear weapons were stocked. Thomas Boutens was developing international links, in particular with the Dutch far right movement National Alliance.

Flemish TV channel VTM claimed (citing justice sources) that the group was preparing to assassinate Philip Dewinter, an important figure of the Vlaams Belang far right party — in a false flag attack that would be been blamed on the Islamist movement. Taking advantage of the ensuing confusion, the group would then murder Dyab Abou Jahjah, leader of the European Arab League. Belgian justice authories denied these claims.

The Belgian press recalled the years of lead period and the strategy of tension, during which the Brabant massacres were carried out. Far right groups such as Westland New Post, with ties to the Belgian stay-behind NATO network, were suspected of being responsible for those massacres, although the parliamentary commission couldn't find any definitive proof. Manuel Abramowicz, a specialist on the Belgian far right (and in charge of the ResistanceS network) was quoted in Le Soir, saying that radical right-wing ultras have always had an aim to "infiltrate the state mechanisms" — including the army in the 1970s and the 1980s, through Westland New Post and the Front de la Jeunesse.

References

  1. De nouvelles découvertes, La Libre Belgique, 8 September 2006 Template:Fr icon
  2. Mandats d'arrêts confirmés pour les néo-nazis, Le Soir, 13 September 2006 Template:Fr icon
  3. « Un « terror game » avant les attentats », in Le Soir, 12 September 2006, p.6 Template:Fr icon
  4. Un groupe terroriste néonazi démantelé, Le Nouvel Observateur, 8 septembre 2006 Template:Fr icon
  5. La Belgique démantèle un groupe néonazi préparant des attentats, Le Monde, 7 septembre 2006 Template:Fr icon
  6. Des militaires néonazis voulaient commettre des attentats, RTL Belgique, 8 septembre 2006 Template:Fr icon
  7. Des militaires néonazis voulaient déstabiliser la Belgique par des attentats, AFP, 08/09/06, 07h12 Template:Fr icon
  8. La Belgique découvre, stupéfaite, un complot néonazi au sein de son armée, AFP, 08/09/06, 12h01. Template:Fr icon
  9. Un réseau terroriste de militaires néonazis démantelé en Belgique, Le Monde, September 8, 2006 Template:Fr icon
  10. Belgium police hold 17 in 'plot', BBC, September 7, 2006 Template:En icon
  11. La justice dément les propos de VTM, Le Soir, 13 September 2006 Template:Fr icon
  12. Un arrière-goût d'années de plomb, La Libre Belgique, 8 September 2006 Template:Fr icon
  13. Les néonazis voulaient déstabiliser le pays, Le Soir, Jeudi 7 septembre 2006 Template:Fr icon

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