Rising Drug Trafficking Violence in Brussels: Unprecedented Challenges for Law Enforcement

2023-08-01 14:18:28

Since the beginning of the year, violence linked to drug trafficking has exploded in Brussels, alerting various actors in the police and judicial world. For some, it’s unheard of in more than twenty years of career. Article reserved for subscribers By Guillaume Derclaye Published on 08/1/2023 at 16:18 Reading time: 4 min

Cut off fingers, kidnappings, bodies riddled with bullets or left for dead following a beating… violence in the narcotics community in Brussels has been at its peak in recent weeks if we are to believe the various actors from the police and judicial world interviewed. by The evening the last days. “I find it pretty crazy, I’ve never seen that in my career. We see more and more violence, more and more frequent, exercised using means that are beginning to frighten, “says a player in the legal world with more than twenty years of experience. “It’s like in the movies except that here, it’s almost every day,” opines an investigator. “We settle the accounts with firearms, and in particular weapons of war”, reports a magistrate. It is indeed not uncommon for AK-47 or M16 type assault rifles to spit their destructive fire in the capital, even in broad daylight.

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