The Brussels-North police zone carried out ten searches, on May 19, in Brussels but also in Liège, Antwerp and Flemish Brabant, as part of an investigation into cannabis trafficking, she said. statement Friday. Fifteen people were arrested, 14 of whom were placed under arrest warrant.
Several cultures discovered
The local police discovered, during these searches, ten growing rooms that could contain 2,400 cannabis plants as well as three cannabis plantations, one of about 800 plants, another containing 500 cuttings which still had to be planted and a last , under construction, which would have had a capacity of about 2,000 plants.
In addition, the police seized three vehicles as well as a sum of 15,000 euros in cash. Fifteen people were deprived of their liberty, 14 of whom were placed at the disposal of the investigating judge in charge of the case, who then placed them under arrest warrant.
The results of another investigation
The investigation into this file is linked to another, which began last fall. Several searches took place in October and December 2021 and then in January 2022, resulting in the discovery of six cannabis plantations and the arrest of 10 suspects who operated these plantations. The new investigation that led to the May 19 searches is centered on the people who set up these cannabis crops.
In October 2021, the Brussels-North police zone searched a building in Schaerbeek where a crop of 800 cannabis plants was discovered. Shortly after, another culture of the same scale was unearthed in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. In December 2021, four other searches were carried out in Brussels and Liège.
In January 2022, three new searches were ordered in the province of Hainaut, resulting in the discovery of two additional cannabis plantations. A building was also seized, as well as a firearm and a vehicle. Following these operations, nine suspects were arrested and placed under arrest warrant by an investigating judge. A tenth person was arrested and arrested in Montenegro and then extradited to Belgium. Two more plantations, of 1,070 cannabis plants, were seized, as well as a quantity of 42 kilos of marijuana and the sum of approximately 50,000 euros in cash.