Brussels - Belgium fearing for the safety of his queen.
Less than four weeks after the assassination attempt on the Dutch Queen Beatrix (71) threatened a terrorist group, the Belgian regent Fabiola (80).
"We kill them with a crossbow," it says in a letter that has put security forces on high alert.
The perfidy: The anonymous sender name has a date for their planned attack. On the day of Belgian independence, 21 July will die Queen Fabiola. This day is celebrated by the Belgians, like its neighbors in the Netherlands on 30 April their Queen, which ended in a bloodbath this year with seven deaths.
After this assassination attempt by the Amokfahrer Karst Richard T. († 38), the Belgians had tightened the security arrangements for their royal family. "Now additional steps will be prepared," said Andre Vandoren, spokesman for the Belgian anti-terrorist unit.
Nor can decide Interior Minister Guido de PADT not to cancel the military parade and the family in Brussels. The preparations for the Independence Day party in the country continue to run at first.
But up close to the population Queen Fabiola will probably not go as long as the sender of the letter have not yet taken. With high pressure, the investigators determine at present, to whom the fingerprints belong on the cover of the letter that was sent to a newspaper.
In the written on a typewriter text says, Fabiola was "unworthy of a queen. From the Affair in a former wine cellar in Belgrade with the Yugoslav leader Tito there is also mentioned.
Fabiola is the widow of King Baudouin died in 1993. Head of state since King Albert II, Fabiola but officially retained the title Queen. simple Queen Fabiola of Belgium is one of the favorites - because of their lifestyle and because it mediates between the ethnic groups Flemings and Walloons.
