2023-09-14 13:45:27

A 31-year-old man was shot dead with 17 bullets fired from a Kalashnikov during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Anderlecht, we learned. The evening Thursday morning. The federal judicial police in Brussels are leading the investigation.

“Our services were in fact called on Thursday around 1:10 a.m. rue Wayez in Anderlecht for a shooting,” explained Sarah Frederickx, spokesperson for the Brussels-Midi police zone.

“The victim died on the spot as a result of his injuries,” continued the spokesperson for the Brussels-Midi police zone. “The suspects fled and a vehicle was found burned further away. The Federal Judicial Police laboratory arrived on the scene and the Federal Judicial Police are leading the investigation.”

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Several people witnessed the scene. “I looked out the window and saw someone with a Kalashnikov. I immediately closed the curtain out of fear. My legs are still trembling now,” reported one of the witnesses, in comments reported by The last news.

The prosecution, largely absent from the conference

During the press conference, Fabrice Cumps (PS), mayor of Anderlecht, opened the session by explaining that the situation was “always difficult when a person loses their life. The emotion is high,” declared the mayor. The latter did not comment on the ongoing investigation. “The murder last night is the result of the shootings that have taken place in our neighborhoods in recent days. In recent months, we have seen an exponential growth in testimonies from residents regarding nuisances in our neighborhoods.” The mayor affirmed that this “murder might be attributed to drug trafficking in our neighborhoods”.

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The mayor wanted to recall the efforts put in place to counter drug trafficking in his commune “I want to wring the neck of a duck that is flying more and more: the fact that there are areas of lawlessness” and recall the efforts made in recent months in the region, he explains. Since mid-June, 450 police operations have taken place in connection with drug trafficking. “We have arrested nearly 1,000 people in the last two months, linked to drug trafficking. 175 kilos of products which were seized and more than 100,000 euros confiscated.”

“We have to be honest, those we arrest are not the big shots, the bosses, the networks, organized crime,” continues the mayor. “To reach people’s heads, we must carry out long-term investigations, which mobilize our teams for many months, a bit like we did in Peterbos where, I remind you, we still obtained convictions which went as far as at 7 years old. »

Our actions serve to ensure that things do not get worse. The fight once morest organized crime is, basically, a responsibility of the federal judicial police, whose state of extreme poverty is known. “I ask insistently, and with a form of emotion, that there be this strengthening of the resources of the PJF so that they can fulfill their mission in the face of drug trafficking which undermines life in our neighborhoods. »

“We will do everything to strengthen security in the neighborhoods,” commented the head of the Midi police zone, Jurgen Delandsheer. “I am confident in my colleagues at the PJF and the prosecution to carry out the investigation,” he continued.

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First announced, the Brussels public prosecutor’s office did not appear at the press conference. The latter explained in a press release that they had “ordered the first investigative duties, namely the camera investigation and the intervention of the federal judicial police laboratory.”

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