The 2015 Paris terrorist attacks trial that opened in Belgium on 19 April has plunged Jaak Raes, the head of Belgium's internal security service, the Sûreté de l'Etat (VSSE), back into a time when his service was shown up to be unprepared for the jihadist threat in Europe. Raes, the first non-magistrate to be appointed to head the service, in 2014,


