2023-10-13 07:46:00
“A helicopter has been hovering over Jette, Laeken for 25 minutes”Jean writes to us. “Intervention of a large force of law enforcement and first aiders near the schools and cemetery of Jette. What is happening?”Rayan asks us.
“There is a helicopter, mabulances, lots of normal police officers, police officers also in assault mode… The firefighters are with helmets and bulletproof”another witness explains.
Several of you contacted us via the orange Alert us button to notify us of a major police presence near Jette. Contacted with the Brussels-West police zone, its spokesperson confirms to us that a police intervention between the local zone and federal police took place this Friday at 7:30 a.m. at rue des Augustines in Jette. “It just ended, 5 minutes ago”however, the spokesperson told us around 9:40 a.m.
A judicial exclusion perimeter was set up and the federal police helicopter was also deployed, “in support of the police zone”tells us the spokesperson for the Federal Police.
Our colleagues from Sudinfo indicate that the Brussels-West Anti-Banditry Brigade (BAB) and Brussels firefighters from the Casualty Extraction Team (CET) entered a home where there had already been, in the past , a series of police interventions for drug addiction.
It seems that this Friday, a new family dispute broke out. A major effort was deployed because it was clearly impossible to contact the protagonists. Sudinfo speaks of a hostage-taking, but later in the morning, the spokesperson for the Brussels-West police zone mentions “a huge misunderstanding.”
“Someone thought his brother was being taken hostage because he was no longer able to get in touch with him, so we didn’t take any risks, but in the end there was no point. worry and the person arrested is already released”indicates the spokesperson to our colleagues at Sudinfo.
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