比利時抗議法國推卸恐襲責任

The Belgian government issued a private diplomatic protest to France this week over what it perceives as the French leadership’s unfair blaming of Belgium for Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, saying that homegrown jihadism is as much a problem for France as it is for Belgium.

比利時政府本週私下向法國提出外交抗議，認爲法國領導人就上週五巴黎恐怖襲擊怪罪比利時是不公平的。比利時政府表示，對於法國和比利時而言，本土聖戰主義都是同樣嚴重的問題。

The protest, made by Prime Minister Charles Michel’s chief diplomatic adviser to the French ambassador to Belgium on Tuesday, comes after international scrutiny has focused on the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek, home to at least three of the attackers and the militant believed to be the plot’s architect.

此次抗議是由比利時首相夏爾猠歇爾(Charles Michel)的首席外交顧問週二向法國駐比利時大使提出的，此前國際社會正將目光聚焦於布魯塞爾的莫倫貝克(Molenbeek)地區，至少3名恐怖襲擊者和據信爲此次陰謀策劃者的激進分子曾在這裏居住。

Belgian officials said only one of the three teams that carried out the Paris attack was linked to Molenbeek, and that France was attempting to point the finger at Belgian failings to cover up its own domestic lapses in countering Islamic extremism.

比利時官員表示，在實施巴黎恐怖襲擊的3個團伙中，只有一個與莫倫貝克有關，法國試圖通過指責比利時的失誤，掩蓋本國在打擊伊斯蘭極端主義方面的過失。

“We were quite firm in our message,” said one senior Belgian official briefed on the démarche. “We do not ignore that jihadism and radicalism has a source here in Belgium. But France has to deal with its own problem as well.”

“我們傳達的信息相當堅定，”一位介紹此次交涉情況的比利時高官表示，“我們沒有忽視比利時存在聖戰主義和極端主義源頭的事實。但法國也必須解決自己的問題。”

According to both French and Belgian officials, Belgium’s security services have been effective in assisting in the rapidly expanding investigation into the attack’s plotters, including tracking two men who may still be at large: Salah Abdeslam, a French national who resided in Molenbeek and is the subject of an international manhunt, and Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian former Molenbeek resident believed to be the architect of the plot.

法國和比利時官員都表示，比利時安全機構有效協助了迅速擴大針對襲擊策劃者的調查，包括追蹤兩名仍然在逃的嫌疑人：住在莫倫貝克、是國際追捕對象的法國人薩拉赫阿貝德斯拉姆(Salah Abdeslam)以及以前曾在莫倫貝克居住、據信是此次恐怖襲擊策劃者的阿卜杜勒哈米德阿巴德(Abdelhamid Abaaoud)。

But Mr Michel was said to be embittered that French investigators, instead of praising their Belgian counterparts for their assistance, were pointing their fingers at Belgium as the centre of the plot. One official said Brussels was particularly irked at the claim by Bernard Cazeneuve, French interior minister, that the attacks had been organised in Belgium.

但據說讓米歇爾感到憤怒的是，法國調查人員沒有稱讚比利時方面提供的協助，反而指責比利時是此次陰謀的核心。一位官員表示，讓比利時感到尤其憤怒的是，法國內政部長伯納德慍澤納夫(Bernard Cazeneuve)聲稱，此次襲擊是在比利時組織的。

One official noted that a January Islamist plot uncovered in Molenbeek and the Belgian city of Verviers to attack Belgian police had involved radicalised French nationals — but Belgian authorities had not blamed Paris for a failure to control its homegrown extremists.

一位官員指出，今年1月在莫倫貝克和比利時城市韋爾維耶被揭露的一場伊斯蘭密謀計劃就包括法國激進人士，該計劃本將針對比利時警方發動襲擊，但比利時當局並沒有指責巴黎未能控制本國的極端主義者。