Driver working for MEPs, captured by ISIS propaganda material

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The two drivers, who worked for a private company that was serving European parliamentarians, were found discs containing propaganda for militants called Islamic State. It is known from the German magazine Der Spiegel. Citing an unidentified number of sources, the weekly claims, the two drivers, one in Brussels and another in Strasbourg, they were fired and that the Belgian police have launched an investigation. The European Parliament refused to comment on the security circumstances. As the Belgian police was ready not to comment. According to Der Spiegel, taking into account other signals that some drivers had criminal records, the European Parliament decided on Monday not to employ staff on private, but only drivers employed directly by the legislature, with an additional cost of 3.7 million euros. Magazine claims that the 65 drivers currently in Brussels to work europalamentarët 751 and 85 in Strasbourg, except 23 drivers who are employed by Parliament. Alert level remains high in Belgium, after the attacks of March 22, when 32 people were killed at the airport and subway Maalbekut Zaventemit.