THIS DUTCHMAN INVENTED THE KATTENTWEETS

A major anti-terror operation, sixteen arrests, Salah Abdeslam which is not mounted and the terror level at four stops. But what the world remembers about last night? Cats. Or how some humor in times of great tension is suddenly world. VTM NEWS spoke with the man who caused all this.

With a call for total radio silence yesterday the security services wanted to prevent possible terrorist action 'live' could follow along. The hashtag #BrusselsLockdown but was then hijacked by people who flock pictures and videos of cats posted.

An initiative that the world was round. Media like BBC News, The Huffington Post, NOS and Le Monde reported on the Belgians threw their cat on Twitter, but it was a Dutchman who invented it. "I saw on Twitter appear that we did nothing should say about where the police raids. Then I thought: "Twitter must still be filled with anything?" Says Hugo Janssen to VTM NEWS.

At the peak appear in 1300 tweets per minute. Eventually more than 200,000 Belgians posted a picture of their cat. The federal police did it, but to come up for everyone to respect the radio silence: "For the cat who helped us yesterday ... Please!"