Majority of Brussels residents feel safe again

The results of a poll conducted by Le Soir and market research firm Ipsos reveal that 66% of Brussels residents feel safe in the capital, an increase on May last year, when the same survey revealed that only 56% of respondents felt unafraid on Brussels' streets.

A year after the terror attacks, a general feeling of security appears to have returned to the people of Brussels. The poll asked whether residents feel safe when moving about the city, to which 66% answered yes. In May 2016, two months after the attacks of 22 March, only 56% responded positively.

The survey also asked residents about their political preferences, and found that the Brussels residents who feel the safest in their city support the Humanist Democratic Centre party (cdH).