2023-09-14 14:32:00
A man was shot several times with a Kalashnikov during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Anderlecht, Sarah Frederickx, spokesperson for the Brussels-Midi police zone, said Thursday morning, confirming information from Sudinfo and local authorities. Mediahuis newspapers. The federal judicial police in Brussels are leading the investigation.
This Thursday around 1:10 a.m., the police services of the Midi zone were called to the shooting of Kalashnikov-type firearms in rue Wayez in Anderlecht where a 31-year-old man was found shot to death in his car, confirms the Brussels public prosecutor’s office this Thursday afternoon.
Informed of the facts, the deputy public prosecutor ordered the first investigative tasks, namely the camera investigation and the intervention of the federal judicial police laboratory.
A burnt vehicle found on rue de la Semence
The suspects are said to be four. They fled in a car which was found on fire on rue de la Semence (photo below), a dead-end street 2 km away, still in Anderlecht. This morning around 9 a.m., our team went to the site. A tow truck had just come to collect the carcass of the vehicle. The police lab was on site, under the eye of local residents.
Marie, a resident of the building next door testifies:
Rue Wayez in shock
The shopping street of Anderlecht was significantly quieter than usual this Thursday morning, noticed our team on site. Some merchants have also decided to keep their stores closed today. They say they are worried and disgusted. Among these traders, few agree to speak on camera. A local resident spoke up, his name is Zaid, he lives just above where the car was targeted:
The mayor calls for strengthening the resources of the PJF
The mayor of Anderlecht, Fabrice Cumps, asks “with insistence that there be a strengthening of the resources of the federal judicial police (PJF)” after the deadly shooting that took place in his town last night. “Our actions carried out on the ground serve to ensure that the situation does not get worse, but the fight against organized crime is a responsibility of the federal judicial police, whose state of extreme poverty is known.“, he said Thursday during a press conference organized by the Brussels-Midi police zone (Anderlecht/Saint-Gilles/Forest).
An investigating judge was summoned to investigate the murder and came to the scene in the presence of the prosecution, the forensic doctor and the ballistics expert.
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