r/AskEurope • u/Silver_Artichoke_456 • Feb 26 '25

Culture What's your country's worst kept secret?

In Belgium for instance, everyone knows there are nuclear bombs at the Kleine Brogel airbase, but it's still officially a secret.

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u/Zxxzzzzx England Feb 26 '25

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Menwith_Hill

It's an American base on a British base, but shhh it's a secret intelligence base that everyone knows about.

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u/savagelysideways101 Feb 26 '25

That the one the diplomats wife killed a young fella on his motorbike when she hit him while drunk?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

The abandoned the scene without calling for any help, leaving him to die and be discovered, when she ran to the nearest US military Base and exited immediately and refused to be held accountable for killing an innocent person.

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u/savagelysideways101 Feb 26 '25

That's the one, tried to claim diplomatic immunity from prosecution, even though the immunity applies to the diplomat, not their spouse, and defo doesn't cover drunken vehicular murder!