The Brussels Police continued on Thursday looking for the authors that occurred the previous day before a subway stop when they received orders to expand the investigations: a new armed confrontation in the same area left a injured one at dawn, in an incident that did not Discard is linked to the first. After these episodes, a new adjustment of accounts is suspected with the background background, which has been sowing the Belgian capital for more than a year.
In fact, the balance of armed violence in the heart of Europe is even greater: another shooting at the other Brussels tip, which left two other injured, elevates three the number of this type of incidents in just 24 hours in the city, which houses the headquarters of the main institutions of the European Union.
Although these cases have multiplied in the last year and a half, mostly linked to, the accumulation of new armed incidents has led to the mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close, to hit the table: the councilor summoned the councilor this Thursday to the Responsible for the different districts (called communes) of the Belgian capital to a meeting with the prosecutor of the king, Julien Moinil, and the capital of police to analyze the situation and seek joint solutions. “It is the time for a general mobilization,” explained the CLOSE Cabinet Chief, Didier Noltincx, to the Belgian news agency.
For his part, the new Interior Minister Bernard Quintin, has announced on social networks that, after calling his office to the National Commissioner against Drugs, INE Van Wymersch, and the General Commissioner of the Federal Police, Eric Snoeck, He has ordered to “reinforce” the police presence in the subway stations of the capital.
The most striking of the shooting chain began around 6.00 on Wednesday, when at least two hooded individuals and rifles armed Kaláshnikov They began to throw shots at the exit of the Clemenceau Metro stop, in the Anderlecht commune, before re -entered the suburban and disappear through its tunnels. The attack did not leave victims, but quickly turned the world because of its spectacularity, collected by several security cameras.
Speaking to the RTBF chain, prosecutor Moinil revealed Thursday that the attack could have ended in authentic tragedy: “What you may not know is that the impact of a bullet on a child’s bedroom on the street of Al Al Al Al Al Al Al. side. That is, there is a family that woke up that morning with a shot in his son’s room. ”
Police began on Wednesday an intense search that caused the closure of the Bruslense Metro service for eight hours, although the suspects have not yet been found or identified. According to the Sudinfo station, new images arising, some of them allegedly recorded by the same authors, reveal that the attack was perpetrated not by two but by up to five individuals: in addition to the couple that left the armed subway with Kaláshnikovtwo other men, wielding guns, did it from a car, in which the driver would have remained filmed the scene: the four armed men surround a small group, presumably drug vendors, who flee quickly abandoning a bag of what It seems cocaine, that the aggressors end up throwing into the air, summarizes the station the scene, which would confirm the theory of a rivalry between drug trafficking bands.
The search operation in the Met Life is not in danger, according to the Prosecutor’s Office. Again, the authors undertook the flight, although according to the RTL chain, a suspect, extreme, however, not yet officially confirmed. Meanwhile, researchers analyze whether the two armed incidents are related. A third shooting, also on Wednesday, in the commune of Saint Josse, ended up turning all alarms.
“How many deaths are going to be necessary to have a reaction at the height of the severity of the situation?” The Moinil wondered. The King’s prosecutor, specialized in cases of great crime and drug trafficking, who assumed his position last October, has requested more means and investigators to make a cartography of the problem in the capital, where only last year there was almost a hundred shootings, mostly linked to drug trafficking.
“I have summoned the six bosses in the area and the director of the Judicial Police and I have asked them for an analysis to know who these people are, who these groups are. We have files and we have made identifications, but there are still many inaccuracies at some points. That is why I have requested that emergency analysis, ”he explained.
