2023-08-04 17:32:00
This observation is made in Le Soir by the head of the federal judicial police of Brussels (PJF), Eric Jacobs, and various heads of service of the PJF.
They appeal to the political world to obtain more resources for a Brussels PJF, of which 30% to 40% are mobilized for the investigations of the federal prosecution, and which thus no longer has enough capacity for the files of the prosecution. from Brussels. To complete the workforce of the PJF in the capital, a hundred police officers would be missing.
Abductions, torture and shootings
“We are facing kidnappings, kidnappings, torture, firing with weapons of war, throwing grenades, attacks with Molotov cocktails and homicides”, warns Mr. Jacobs.
He cites the case, in a neighborhood, of a war between two gangs, one of which had decided to cut prices. There were gunshots in the middle of the street.
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To hear the boss of the PJF in Brussels, the situation in the capital would be worse than in the port city: “In Antwerp, there is violence, but there are not many deaths. Here, there is murders.”
And it confirms what the investigations, dismantled in recent years in Brussels in the wake of Sky ECC, have shown: in Brussels, Albanian-speaking criminal groups hold the upper hand.
Money, sinews of war
To fight against criminal organizations active in drug trafficking, it is a question of seizing the money, but Eric Jacobs deplores this, it is not a success: “In the fight against money laundering, we cannot say that we’ve had a lot of success, that’s a big deal.”
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