Trump At NATO Meeting Under High Security After Manchester Bombing

Queen Mathilde and King Philip with Prime Minister Charles Michel in Brussels with Melania and Donald Trump on 24 May 2017.

The president of the United States landed Wednesday night 24 May in Brussels as part of his first international tour. After meeting the King of the Belgians and his Prime Minister on Wednesday, he continues his program Thursday morning with the leaders of the European Union before lunch one-on-one with Emmanuel Macron and then participates in his first summit of the European Union, Nato.
Since the arrival of Donald Trump at the airport until his takeoff this Thursday evening, the Belgian capital is under high security. The attack in Manchester revived in Belgium the painful memory of the attacks of 22 March 2016 which took place both at the airport and in the European quarter, two places in which Donald Trump is present during this visit to Brussels.

During the approximately thirty hours of the presence of Donald Trump in Brussels, the city is under close surveillance even if the Minister of the Interior did not consider it necessary to raise the level of the threat that remains to three on a scale of four. The security system is practically at its maximum, and police unions have been told that this visit by the President of the United States was excessively heavy on the active staff and reservists of the Belgian federal police.

In addition to the military on patrol since the attacks, more than 4,000 federal police officers have been mobilized with the deployment of all heavy police, helicopter, emergency response, canine brigade, Even eagles trained to drive drones.

Whole neighborhoods of Brussels have been closed since Wednesday afternoon with the streets barred by concrete blocks and will remain until the departure of Donald Trump and all the arteries near its route are forbidden to access before and after its displacements.

The protest against his presence was severely framed by law enforcement officials and the authorities even up to forbid supporters of Turkish President Reçep Tayyip Erdogan from coming to show their support.

For a number of heads of state and government, this will be the first meeting with Mr. Trump, which is obviously the case of Emmanuel Macron ...