A POLICE request that Brussels residents maintained “radio silence on” social media on Sunday night as the raids took place was answered by people instead choosing to post pictures of their cats.
One Twitter user, Jogchum Vrielink, posted two identical pictures of his cat curled up, asleep, with the caption: “Cat behavior before lockdown vs cat behavior during lockdown”.
Scottish business networking organisation Scotland Europa, based in Brussels, posted a picture of a kitten inside a sporran.
The caption read: “Scotland Europa is open for business today, and this is our feline fighter #BrusselsLockdown”.
MSP Roseanna Cunningham, secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training, also joined in the tweets.