''Last Saturday in Paris, at the Boulevard Voltaire near the
Bataclan club, I found myself staring at a pool of blood. I wondered
what was happening with the world, and refocused my camera on the
aftermath of the terror. When it became clear the attacks were planned
in Molenbeek, I was not surprised. The real surprise? That Belgium
expressed shock at the connection.
* * *
I called Molenbeek my home for nine years. In 2005,
it was the city’s last affordable neighborhood — in large part because
of its bad reputation. My apartment, just across the canal from the city
center, is close to the home where two suspects in the Paris attacks
were based, and around the corner from where the shooter from the foiled
Thalys attack in August had been staying...''
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