Unseen Police Promotion is going on in notorious Peterboswijk in Anderlecht, hundreds of agents deployed (inland)
A major police action is underway in the notorious Anderlecht district Peterbos on Wednesday morning. Hundreds of agents are used.
Today at 9:17 AM
In the Peterboswijk on Wednesday morning around 9 am 400 to 500 agents settled, an unseen large number in a police action in recent Belgian history. The neighborhood was completely closed off. The action would be in the fight against the drug gangs that are active there. The Local Police Zone Brussel Zuid (Anderlecht/Sint-Gillis/Prince) does not provide any information about the promotion for the time being and will only communicate later.
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« The Brussels public prosecutor confirms that a large-scale judicial operation is taking place today in the Peterbos district in Anderlecht in the fight against drug trafficking, » says Laura Demullier of the Brussels public prosecutor’s office. « The operation is led by the Brussels public prosecutor’s office. Various magistrates are on site and in the command post. Both the local and the federal police are involved in this action. »
The public prosecutor emphasizes the « very good cooperation with the local authorities ». « The full results will be communicated at the end of the operation. The public prosecutor is currently not providing any further information so that the effectiveness of the operation can be guaranteed to the end. »
Bad reputation
The Peterboswijk, a social high-rise living area in Anderlecht, has had a bad reputation for a long time due to the nuisance and crime that is the result of the drug trade that is rampant. Since a few years, drug gangs from Marseille would make the service, and make attempts to force their territory by violence.
In December 2022, thirty people were sentenced to penalties that went from autonomous work sentences of 225 hours to eight -year prison sentences because they had set up a well -organized drug trade from the social residential blocks in the neighborhood.
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Afterwards, the organized drug trade remained a scourge in the neighborhood, and in June 2024 19 suspects were again arrested in a drug investigation, but the neighborhood remained a hotspot in the drug trade and it repeatedly came to conflicts between the organization that operated from the Peterboswijk and other drug gangs. In recent months, Brussels has been startled by shootings in no time, with several deaths and injuries fell.
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