A recent Brussels tourism ad campaign that mocked the city's reputation for producing terrorists has gone viral after the recent attacks.

Two months ago, following Belgian links to the Paris attacks where 130 were massacred, the Brussels tourism department, VisitBrussels, launched a video rebranding the city as a safe place to visit.

The #CallBrussels campaign, which showed people from around the world asking everyday Belgians about Brussels, has been pulled down from Visit Brussel's official YouTube channel in the last 24 hours.

"After Brussels was linked to terror plots, the international media portrayed the city as a warzone," the ad reads. "We wanted to change this perception with an honest answer."

"Did you see some people who are fighting with guns and bombs?" a male caller asks.

"No, oh my god, no way," a woman answers.

"I read on the internet that it's very dangerous to visit your city," another caller asks.

"Well actually it's the media that's made a whole fuss about it, but nothing is happening," a Belgian man replies.

The video shows the streets of Molenbeek, the notorious Brussels suburb described as ground zero for producing jihadi fighters.

Three of the Paris attackers, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud and recently captured Salah Abdeslam, grew up in Molenbeek.

It was also the home of one of the terrorists behind the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 192 people, and Ayoub el-Khazzani, a terrorist gunman who was overpowered on board a high-speed French train last August.

The campaign video has now been taken down.

Belgium has a higher number of jihadi fighters in Syria per capita than any other European country, with nearly 500 confirmed.