Brussels To crime in the probleemwijk Peterbos in Anderlecht tackle, undertook the police in January of different actions. Since the beginning of the year, three visits to the home made to drug trafficking networks to dismantle.
The actions are framed within the Sustainable Wijkcontract (DWC) that the Peterboswijk in 2018 by the Brussels-capital Region awarded. The purpose of this contract is the district between 2019 and 2023 to upgrade inter alia, by the crime to address.
The area that is regularly ravaged by rival drug dealers. In skirmishes between the gangs, sick of the palsy, on 28 december 2018 another person was seriously wounded by several knife wounds. The man is still in mortal danger. On 8 January were for this incident, four suspects arrested, including two minors. The two adults were in suspicion of attempted murder and are under the arrest warrant placed.
Raids
At a politieactie on 10 January, a workshop was discovered, which was used for the packaging of narcotics. The police found more than 75,000 euros in cash and narcotics. That day, there were also the five suspects held. On January 16 and struck the police again on more than 30,000 euros in cash money. The officers took large amounts of cocaine and marijuana and a firearm seized. In the last action, on the 24th of January, were another two suspects arrested.
