Appointed last January, Julien Moinil was placed under reinforced police protection due to threats deemed “serious and imminent” against him, while he is fighting against drug trafficking in the country.
In Belgium, narcotickers have only to keep well. Since last January, a new prosecutor of the King of Brussels has been appointed. Julien Moinil, 39, made a resounding entry into this position, with the aim of fighting with drug trafficking, particularly dense in the Brussels region. A fight that earned him to bear the nickname «Batman»the vigilante superhero.
Which, obviously, fiercely displeases drug networks, which take advantage of Brussels to connect the ports of the North Sea to the rest of Europe, and in particular France. So much so that in recent days, he had to be placed under «protection maximale» police after receiving several threats deemed “Serious and imminent”according to the newspaper The latest news and the Belga news agency.
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The mandate of prosecutor to the king of Julien Moinil is effective for five years. It can be renewed once. Lawyer at the Brussels Bar in 2008, he has been working in the judicial order for 16 years. Just before taking office, he exercised as a federal magistrate, explains the Higher Council for Belgian justice. Before being appointed prosecutor to the king, Julien Moinil had already taken on the role of substitute. In 2016, he then joined the Mons-Tournai prosecution, where he was assigned to the section “Organized crime” And where he had also been appointed magistrate responsible for the La Louvière police area.
Large -scale operations
Julien Moinil is therefore a regular on the fight against drug trafficking at the flat country. But even more for six months, he has shaken the deal points in the Brussels suburbs. Last June, the Belgian press notably told that a police intervention was carried out at Peterbos, in Anderlecht, southwest of Brussels by nearly 900 police officers, to control 271 unoccupied dwellings, 411 people and 117 vehicles. Drugs, and weapons were then found, according to several Belgian media.
A few hours later, another operation was ordered in the Marbotin district, in Schaerbeek, northeast of the capital, and enabled the arrest of five suspects. The police had got hold of almost 45,000 euros in cash, 324 grams of cannabis grass, 15 grams of ketamine and 2 grams of cocaine.
Before being under maximum protection, the highest level of surveillance, Julien Moinil had been placed under close police protection at the end of June by the coordination body for the analysis of the threat (OCAM). Last April, the King’s prosecutor spoke about the threats he had already received from our colleagues from RTL Info Signatures. “I lead this fight for citizens, so that people can wake up quietly, go to work quietly, without being attacked. I know that I probably take risks but like the other magistrates who work in organized crime ”he said.