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The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
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#12Yes, the Brussels state is in desperate need of funds, so they rent out public parks, including the Cinquantenaire, for private events. Of course, during such events the park is not accessible to the public, and there's private security who can hand over anyone to the Brussels police to be escorted out of the park. You know, like you can do in your apartment too. So if Bill White, the US ambassador, pays to rent out…
> So if Bill White, the US ambassador, pays to rent out the park for, I think it was 2 weeks, they can have whoever they want removed from this public park. Including any reporters.
That would be by private security not police though. You aren't generally arrested for annoying an event organiser.
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#13free speech, I fear, is in retreat
I'm sorry Mario, your Free Speech is in another Castle!
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#14reminds me of Dan Brown's latest book: The Secret of Secrets.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like they had a legitimate question for the ambassador who reacted badly - which is no surprise for someone in this administration.
I just don't want to jump to any conclusion as I've never heard of this site nor these people before, for all I know they could be known for doing stunts or something. Though if this really happened as they say, it reflects very badly on Belgium as well.
If you don't want to jump to conclusions, why then didn't you research a bit before posting?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just don't want to jump to any conclusion as I've never heard of this site nor these people before, for all I know they could be known for doing stunts or something. Though if this really happened as they say, it reflects very badly on Belgium as well.
If you don't want to jump to conclusions, why then didn't you research a bit before posting?
Because search engines suck, it's hard to find reliable information on relatively niche foreign news sources and I'm lazy.
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Yes, they're a legitimate news organization. They are partially funded by the EU government.
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#18Yes, the Brussels state is in desperate need of funds, so they rent out public parks, including the Cinquantenaire, for private events. Of course, during such events the park is not accessible to the public, and there's private security who can hand over anyone to the Brussels police to be escorted out of the park. You know, like you can do in your apartment too. So if Bill White, the US ambassador, pays to rent out…
> So if Bill White, the US ambassador, pays to rent out the park for, I think it was 2 weeks, they can have whoever they want removed from this public park. Including any reporters. That would be by private security not police though. You aren't generally arrested for annoying an event organiser.
If you get trespassed then wouldn't the police get involved?
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Belgian here, never heard of them/the site
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The European Correspondent is a legitimate, though young, news organization. I can recommend their newsletter, they write about a nice mix of topics from all across Europe.