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Johan Leman, 5 July 2022

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I do not know what exactly is going on and what is causing it. What am I talking about? About the extent of the drug distribution platforms in the Brussels Canal Zone.

Anyone who still dares to claim that this is a purely local matter is either or too far removed from the facts. And please, don’t reduce it to something Moroccan-Brussels, no … it’s about Albanian (the hardest and best organized ones), Turkish criminals, and also others …

Isn’t there also something local? Of course,  for some young people, an income model is emerging where you can easily earn 50 to 60 euros just by standing guard for two hours and whistling when you see the police coming. And  there are also some morocco-Brussels families with “a tradition in the drugs dealing market”.

We don’t speak only about hash, but also about cook, l’héroïne et surtout le crack très bon marché.

One can easily find  a few tens of thousands of € per car by regularly checking a suspicious car. Drop in somewhere suspicious? Again, success guaranteed, and with more than a few tens of thousands of euros. And the municipal police are clearly understaffed to confront it.

And what does the federal government do? Freeing up police for other things, which pass more easily and more positively to the general public. Oh yes, one promises 20 police officers in a place where one needs structurally 200 ones. Let us hope that federal authorities will not accuse inhabitants that they were dancing, if one day a serious incident will happen in the canal zone.

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