Several hours earlier, around midnight, another person was injured in a shooting incident in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, according to the local police of Brussels West. “Our teams were called around midnight for a shooting incident on Jean Dubrucqlaan,” said Brussels West police. “They found a victim who had been hit in the lower leg. The victim was taken to the hospital but was not in a life-threatening condition.”
Brussels was already shaken this past weekend again by several shooting incidents. On the night of Friday to Saturday, around 23.40, shots were fired multiple times in the direction of a police station on Demosthenesstraat in Anderlecht. Bullet impacts were observed, but no one was injured. Two suspects on a scooter then fled the scene. On Saturday and Sunday, there were again shootings.
In Sint-Gillis, mayor Jean Spinette was approached on Monday morning by several residents. According to him, he was able to inform them that the police of the South zone had made “hundreds of arrests” in recent weeks and seized “tens of kilos of drugs,” thereby regaining ground from the drug gangs.
According to the mayor, the drug gangs are trying to recover their selling points and often resume their trade close to where the previous dealer was arrested. He also reiterated the need for eighty additional investigators at the federal judicial police of Brussels, so that the police can go beyond small dealers and uncover the networks behind them.
“As long as we do not address the root causes, we will only be dealing with the consequences,” said mayor Spinette, who also calls for efforts to combat money laundering networks and arms trafficking: “It is not the local police that dismantle the drug organisations involved in shootouts; that is the work of the judicial police.”
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