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2023-07-18 15:31:00

”We feel that the dealers are very nervous because we intensified our controls during this summer as part of a plan developed by our Midi police zone (which includes Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles and Forest). Basically, this operation was to fight once morest incivility and all the nuisances traditionally on the rise in summer: nocturnal disturbances, gatherings in public spaces…. But, when we reinforce the police presence, it is not a secret, we also come across drug trafficking, an increasingly important phenomenon in the big cities. We arrest the dealers and they get very nervous.”

Murder in the city of Peterbos in Anderlecht

The “nanny apartment” technique

For Fabrice Cumps, the attacks carried out once morest police officers on Sunday must be brought back to this context. “Very clearly, in Saint-Gilles, on Sunday, we saw the sign of this nervousness in drug circles. Last week, in Anderlecht, we came across a “nursing apartment”, as we say in the jargon, where we store the products that will supply the sellers in the neighborhood. It was used to supply the entire district of Cureghem (Anderlecht). We seized 19 kg of drugs, all the same. For a market value of 150,000 euros! The dealers on the street keep quite a bit of stuff on them and hide their stocks in different places. We usually release them fairly quickly, but when we come across these hiding places, there are more serious convictions. And they lose a lot of money. Finally, all this shows that there are no lawless zones.”

19 kilos of drugs found in an apartment in Cureghem ©Zone Midi

The socialist mayor also mentions events that occurred on Tuesday. “Just before this interview, I came across an intervention by a police patrol on Place Jaurès in the heart of Cureghem… To evoke symbolic places, I am also thinking of the district of the Peterbos housing estate (one of the most major social housing cities in Brussels, Editor’s note). This district is considered very anxiety-provoking from the outside, but that did not prevent large-scale police interventions last year. There is certainly no order from the authorities not to go to certain places and even less fear of the police going to difficult areas. The police are present on a daily basis in the most sensitive areas.”

The Saint-Gilles police station attacked with a Molotov cocktail
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2023-07-18 16:18:38

The official of the Khalifa Neighborhood Reporting Room told Sky News Arabia that he had received a report of the collapse of a property at 6 Al Madrasa Lane on Al Mahjar Street within the Khalifa neighborhood in Cairo.

He explained that the concerned authorities were notified, and the Civil Defense, Rescue and Ambulance Forces moved to remove the rubble and search for victims.

He noted that the detailed data on the property has not been received yet, but preliminary statements say that it consists of 3 floors and a ground floor and that it is an old property.

This comes only 24 hours following the disaster of the collapse of a 5-storey building in Hadayek al-Qubba, northeast of Cairo, with 13 dead and one injured.

It also comes two days following the collapse of a property in Alexandria, leaving 3 dead and one injured, and the collapse of a property in Buhaira, leaving two dead.

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