BELGIUM: Country Coverage
ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION
Security situation
Threat assessment
ANALYSIS OF MILITANCY
Militant incidents
(period: 2011-2021)
41 fatalities
393 injuries
Geographical distribution
- Brussels (57 incidents)
- Hainaut (18 incidents)
- Liège (10 incidents)
- Limburg (8 incidents)
- Oost-Vlaanderen (7 incidents)
» Geographical distribution of militancy 
» Militant incidents in Belgium (2011-2021)
» Casualties of militancy in Belgium
» Vectors of militancy in Belgium
Common use of weapons
- incendiaries (78 incidents)
- sharp weapons (13 incidents)
- firearms (5 incidents)
Common attack modalities
- arson attacks (46 incidents)
- firebombings (31 incidents)
- physical assaults (16 incidents)
Frequent attack targets
- law enforcement (38 incidents)
- general population (14 incidents)
- immigrant communities (11 incidents)
- politics (8 incidents)
- local government (7 incidents)
» Targets of militancy in Belgium
» Militant tactics in Belgium
Common conflict vectors
- immigrant dissatisfaction (32 incidents)
- Islamist militancy (16 incidents)
- anarchist militancy (11 incidents)
- Turkish-Kurdish conflict (8 incidents)
- dissatisfaction with politics (6 incidents)
Perpetrator backgrounds
- ADSEC’s* (43 incidents)
- Islamists (16 incidents)
- anarchists (11 incidents)
- ultranationalists (6 incidents)
- Turkish nationalists (5 incidents)
* agents of disenfranchised socio-ethnic communities
» Militant incidents in Belgium (2011-2021)
» Casualties of militancy in Belgium
» Geographical breakdown of militancy in Belgium
» Militant targeting in Belgium
» Militant tactics in Belgium
» Belgian militant operational protocols
» Vectors of conflict in Belgium
MILITANT ENTITIES & OPERATIVES
Militant entities
» Ali Tabich Module [FAT]
» Aroud & Garsallaoui Network [AGN]
» Assadollah Assadi Cell [AAC]
» Bassam Ayachi Network [BAN]
» Bilal Soughir Network [BSN]
» Blood, Soil, Honor & Loyalty Network [BBET]
» Calebout Brothers Network [CBN]
» Cavale Network [LC]
» Chalil Man Network [CMN]
» Dibrani, Imishti & Matoshi Network [DIMN]
» GICM Maaseik Remnants Network [GMRN]
» Gouram, Moumen & Tarik Module [GMTM]
» Hassan Hamdaoui Module [HHM]
» Jean-Louis Denis Network [JLDN]
» Khalid Zerkani Network [KZN]
» Nizar Trabelsi Module [NTM]
» Revolutionary Front of the Insubordinate Vehicles [FRVI]
» Saïd Saouti Module [SSM]
» Shari’a for Belgium Movement [Sh4B]
» Soufiane el-Houari Module [SHM]
Militants (A-C)
» Abdelhamid Abaaoud
» Fatima Aberkane
» Noureddine Abouallal
» Kamel Affetat
» Mehdi Aïda
» Othman Akzinnay
» Mehrdad Arefani
» Malika el-Aroud
» Assadollah Assadi
» Gelel Atar
» Ousama Atar
» Driss el-Atellah
» Abdelrahman Ayachi
» Bassam Ayachi
» Yacine Azzaoui
» Fouad Belkacem
» Farouk Ben Abbes
» Fouad Bennane
» Hicham Beyayo
» Khalid Bouloudo
» Tomas Boutens
» Olivier Calebout
» Hicham Chaïeb
» Mohammed Cherabi
Militants (K-Q)
Militants (D-J)
» Olivier Dassy
» Jean-Louis Denis
» Mickaël Devredt
» Mahid Dibrani
» Sammy Djedou
» Houssien Elouassaki
» Abdelkader el-Farssaoui
» Mélissa Frangi
» Moezzedine Garsallaoui
» Yousef el-Gbouri
» Raphaël Gendron
» Abdelhakim Gouram
» Abdelkrim el-Haddouti
» Noureddine Hamecha
» Abdelkader Hakimi
» Hassan Hamdaoui
» Lahoussine el-Haski
» Soufiane el-Houari
» Rachid Iba
» Arben Imishti
» Tarik Jadaoun