crime
In the Brussels municipality of Sint-Gillis, one fatality occurred in a new shooting on Wednesday morning, the third in the area in three days. “The dealers apparently feel untouchable.”
The shooting is said to have taken place around 6 o’clock in the area of Jacques Franckplein at Hallepoort Park, at the same place where a shooting had already taken place on Tuesday afternoon. Mayor Jean Spinette (PS) reported this on the RTBF and confirmed this to Belga.
The perpetrators fired a weapon of war from a car at the facade of a building there on Monday afternoon. A 71-year-old woman was injured when she was hit by the fleeing gangsters. On Sunday evening there was another shooting about 400 meters away, in the Brussels Marolles. Two people were seriously injured, the perpetrators have not yet been caught.
“Yesterday it was about intimidation, today it is more like an execution,” says Mayor Spinette, for whom the ties with the drug environment are clear. “The federal judicial police are on site and are conducting the investigation.”
“The dealers apparently feel untouchable,” the mayor continues. “After yesterday’s incident, they almost immediately returned to the park to start dealing again. I asked the police to take action and someone was arrested last night, but the dealers returned afterwards. I once again appeal to tackle this problem seriously, with the entire chain of police and justice.”
