Residents of the Patrijsstraat in the Antwerp borough of Merksem received a bullet letter this morning. About thirty households received the letter. The envelope contained the name of a company in the Antwerp port and the name of a local resident.
According to Belgian media the police are investigating whether there is a link with the drug environment and it is possible that the senders want to put extra pressure on the local resident by immediately intimidating the entire neighborhood.
Just take a breath
There was also a suitcase in the street. The entire street was evacuated because there may be explosives in it. Only after an investigation by a robot from the mine clearance service were the local residents able to go home. The suitcase was empty.
“I’ve lived here for 54 years, but I’ve never experienced this,” one of the residents tells the Gazette of Antwerp† Another neighbor, who has a birthday, says: “I cheerfully went to empty the mailbox this morning, filled with all the birthday cards, but to find a bullet is quite hard to swallow.”
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