The Swiss authorities handed over the drug trafficker Flor Bressers to Belgium. His plane landed at Melsbroek military airport on Friday, he was then taken to prison, several media said.
The man, 30, was sentenced in March 2020 for a hostage-taking committed on February 12 and 13, 2016. Bressers and his accomplices suspected the victim of having lost a quantity of drugs and demanded a large sum of money from her. ‘silver. The hostage accuses Bressers, whom he calls “de Lange” (“the tall one”), of having hit him and slashed his hand.
Flor Bressers was sentenced to four years in prison by the Antwerp Court of Appeal for theft with gang violence, extortion with weapons and unlawful deprivation of liberty with death threats. He fled and even found himself on the site and the Most Wanted list for a time. He was finally able to be arrested in February in Switzerland. He will now begin serving his sentence.
His name is cited in several ongoing court cases in Antwerp, West Flanders and East Flanders. Organized and aggravated crime is the red thread in these various investigations which deal with international drug trafficking not exempt from violence.
