2023-09-13 06:59:00
This Wednesday morning, François De Smet was the political guest of bel RTL. The president of DéFI answered questions from Martin Buxant. The MP notably deplored the fact that Belgium is transforming into a narco-state, due to disinvestment in our justice and our police. He also explains why his party advocates for the legalization of cannabis.
On drug trafficking, you think that we are not tough enough. We’re paddling, it’s true regarding that. The fight once morest cocaine, heroin, etc.
“All our citizens can experience it, it is that our cities are changing, not only in Brussels but also in Antwerp, in Liège, in Namur. We see around the stations that there are more and more cocaine zombies.”
In Brussels ?
“In Brussels, but almost everywhere. It does not stigmatize Brussels; This is the case in Antwerp, almost everywhere. What is the problem? First, we have the world hub of cocaine on our soil, namely the port of Antwerp. Second, we have a justice system and a police force which have been significantly disinvested for 10 years. It is the local police force which must supplement the tasks of the federal police force.”
We have re-injected a lot of funds into the fight once morest drugs, police resources, public prosecutors. In Antwerp, 23 additional magistrates. It’s not sufficient ?
“For Antwerp, so much the better. But during this time there is a shortage of 30 magistrates in Brussels. It is not me who says this, but the Brussels magistrates. There is a shortage of a thousand police officers across the entire territory. The boss of the Brussels federal police complained in the press this summer to say that we are not at the level. We are dealing with drug traffickers who have crazy financial power.
Is Belgium a narco-state?
“We are in the process of becoming one. We are dealing with people who are capable of paying 15,000 euros to a dockworker just to make him look the other way, who are capable of corrupting police officers. We have police officers who are currently moment judged for this. And we are not at the level and we are slowly transforming into a narco-state.”
What do you say then to the Minister of Justice or the Prime Minister who say that legalizing cannabis is not the solution because there is a phenomenon of gearing, of training perhaps? towards hard drugs, to you who want to legalize cannabis?
“I think, on the contrary, that it is time to choose our battle and that the means which are used to fight small cannabis traffickers must be used to fight the big mafias.”
Sometimes it’s the same mafias, cannabis, hard drugs…
“Yes… but you dry up the cannabis market by legalizing it, you can fight and put all means into the cocaine market because it is this market that ensures that you have zombies in our metro stations , in our stations, and that you have murders today in Brussels and Antwerp. And very objectively yes, our country is becoming a narco-state because the traffickers identify us as a weak state, where we are disinvesting the police, the justice system and where we get lost in community bickering.”
Watch the full interview below:
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