{"id":34030,"date":"2026-08-23T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34030\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:09:01","slug":"man-injured-in-drug-linked-brussels-shooting-after-attack-on-police-station-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/34030\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured in drug-linked Brussels shooting after attack on police station \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The violence marked \u201cyet another wake-up call\u201d for the Belgian capital, the region\u2019s Minister-President Boris Dilli\u00e8s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BorisDillies\/status\/2091113406308688165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reacted on X<\/a>. \u201cWe will not let organized crime take over our city,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dilli\u00e8s said his government was taking measures to address the violence, including by appointing a Brussels commissioner for drugs, who will take on the role from September, and by restricting the use of e-scooters, which he said \u201cunfortunately, are often used by criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s top prosecutor Julien Moinil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtbf.be\/article\/des-coups-de-feu-tires-en-direction-d-un-commissariat-a-anderlecht-rue-demosthene-11773807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> that, given the target of Friday night\u2019s shooting, \u201cthere is a clear intent to undermine authority\u201d \u2014 but he added that \u201cthey will not succeed.\u201d He explained that a lot of shootings are ordered from inside prison, calling for secure zones where phones cannot operate.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels recorded 57 shootings in the first seven months of 2026. Two people were killed and 21 injured, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrt.be\/vrtnws\/nl\/2026\/08\/20\/al-57-schietpartijen-in-brussel-in-de-eerste-helft-van-2026-rec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to VRT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The violence marked \u201cyet another wake-up call\u201d for the Belgian capital, the region\u2019s Minister-President Boris Dilli\u00e8s reacted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,18,420,421,2981],"class_list":["post-34030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-brussels-bubble","tag-illicit-drugs","tag-weapons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117144280514586705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}