Bart De Wever promises action against drug violence in Antwerp and Brussels: « Freeing up hundreds of police officers by having soldiers guarded the nuclear power stations » (Antwerp)

The residents of the Seefhoek are fed up with the increasing nuisance. And that message does not fall into deaf ears with Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA). « Of course I understand their worries. As a former mayor I know them all too well, » he responded on Tuesday morning ATV During a visit to the new Ineos factory. « Now I am at the federal level and we are cutting back everywhere, except for safety. There are rising budgets for federal police and justice. »

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NATO expects Member States to be sensitive to their investments in Defense in the coming years. Belgium goes that engagement and De Wever certainly has one post that he wants to bet on. « We are going to engage the Ministry of Defense for ‘service on the nation’. In the short term, we want to free up hundreds of police officers by having soldiers guarded the nuclear power stations. As we can train and recruit more soldiers, we will also be able to use them more and more in our own country and thus release police capacity to use in large cities, such as Brussels and Antwerp. »

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De Wever promises to be able to free up 200 agents by July. That number will be raised in the coming years.