Three Consecutive Days of Shootings in Saint-Gilles
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After two shootings in three days in Saint-Gilles, Boris Dilliès called on Wednesday the CORES to strengthen the means and coordination against drug trafficking. ...
Mayor Jean Spinette (PS) of Saint-Gilles reiterates his call to enlist the help of the federal police following new shootings at the Place des Bancs on Monday evening. Together with the mayors of Anderlecht and Forest, he is now demanding a federal action plan. “I comforted children who were sitting at a table on the terrace of the pizzeria. I am beside myself. Help must come,” said Spinette.
New shots were fired on Monday around 9 p.m. at the Place des Deux Bancs, in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles, at the crossing of Gustave Defnet street and the street of Montenegro. This was confirmed by the mayor Jean Spinette (PS), who is planning to ask for the federal police. "We need to be helped," he said this Tuesday morning. As for Interior Minister Bernard Quintin, this Tuesday he declared to the microphone of the show "De Ocht…
Brussels is grappling with a wave of gang-related violence. Over the past three days, a series of shootings have occurred in the Saint-Gilles district. The perpetrator of the latest incident used an automatic weapon and fled the scene. Police have arrested two people suspected of involvement in the crime and seized four firearms.
On the evening of August 24, a shooting occurred in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles, in which two people were wounded.
Brussels mayor demands more police as gun violence grips Saint-Gilles
Brussels’ Saint-Gilles municipality is facing a renewed wave of gun violence linked to suspected drug trafficking, prompting Mayor Jean Spinette to demand 80 additional police officers and warn that residents are being exposed to increasingly brazen criminal violence. The latest shooting, on Monday night, was the third consecutive day of gunfire in the municipality, with […]
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