The minister in charge of court houses, Valérie Glatigny, on Wednesday denied that CAPREV, a centre that monitors and provides guidance for people affected by violent radicalism and extremism, had any responsibility in the murder of policeman Thomas Monjoie.
Monjoie was knifed to death last week by a radicalised man who had been monitored for years by the centre.
“It is not because of the withholding of CAPREV's information that the tragedy occurred,” Minister Glatigny said Wednesday, when questioned by several parliamentarians during the plenary session of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation parliament.
“How could the information from CAPREV have changed anything in the treatment of the suspect when he was on the OCAM [Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis] list?” she asked, in response to criticism of the monitoring centre by Federal Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne.
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Questioned shortly after the tragedy about the dysfunctions that could have led to the murder of the policeman by Yassine M., the Justice Minister had suggested that the CAPREV had not sufficiently shared information that it had on the perpetrator with Belgian authorities.
For Ms Glatigny, any attempt to hint that CAPREV could be responsible was linked "to a desire to divert attention.” In her view, Yassine M. was able to commit the murder because of “the failure to take legal responsibility for threats made against police officers on the morning of the tragedy.”
