2024-03-16 18:51:07
The news has been marked in recent weeks by shootings in the heart of Brussels. To understand this worrying phenomenon, we managed to make contact with a person close to delinquency circles. She explains to us the ease with which young people obtain weapons of war.
To have access to this telephone number, we had to provide guarantees of anonymity because our interlocutor is currently in preventive detention following several robberies. According to him, the increase in shootings in Brussels can be explained in particular by the ease with which even the youngest can obtain weapons via chat applications such as Telegram or Snapchat. “There are quite a few people who have contacts and so you just have to contact them to meet the person. And even for a payment, it’s not even traceable in fact“, he explains. “Prices vary between 800 and 2500 euros.
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“We still observe that more and more weapons are accessible in an extremely easy way. All it takes is contact with a Snapchat or Telegram account. These weapons also circulate within criminal organizations“, notes Michel Degrève, criminal lawyer.
It is generally very young people who participate in these shootings. Some call them the GTA generation, a reference to an ultra violent video game. “We observe that there is a bit of a form of trivialization of evil where we tend to perceive extremely violent acts as fairly simple things. Let’s say that we have the ease of shooting, we have the extremely easy trigger more and more“, notes the lawyer.
Lovers of images, social media posts, exhibitions and press articles. They are also looking for recognition and credibility in the community. “Today, these young people want to exist and to exist, they publish on the networks what criminals they do“, explains Yannick De Vlaemynck, another lawyer.
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Justice and police services are struggling to counter this phenomenon which is increasingly taking place on social networks, particularly among young people.
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