Justice Minister Paul Van Tigchelt after drug violence in Brussels: ‘Police are too occupied with other problems’
by Mofaluna
Justice Minister Paul Van Tigchelt after drug violence in Brussels: ‘Police are too occupied with other problems’
by Mofaluna
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> “We have been pursuing a policy for some time,” Van Tigchelt stresses. “We hunt down the drug bosses. They get nervous, they no longer feel they have impunity. They get scared.” That situation causes more incidents. “That’s why things will get worse before they get better.”
> It comes down to breaking the criminal revenue model, the minister adds. But that is not easy, because the drug gangs can count on an almost endless array of vulnerable people to do the dirty work, such as the unemployed or undocumented workers, Van Tigchelt points out. Therefore, there is also a task in the wider field, in education and employment.
> Meanwhile, the current approach does show results, says Van Tigchelt: “The prisons are not accidentally full, and not accidentally with a high proportion of drug criminals.”
So we have been waging a war on drugs for quite some time now, the prison are full of drug criminals as a result – while rapists walk free – and there’s no end in sight, in fact things will only get worse before they will magically get better one day.
And that’s somehow evidence the current approach is working…
Cutting off a boss will only lead to a power vacuum and another boss. This instability is arguably more unsafe as to just to allow it.