This summer, fire incidents made victims who had nothing to do with the facts. In Molenbeek, in the afternoon, a ball reached the windshield of a car. Inside the vehicle, a mother and her 9 year old child. “”About a thing, this lady was killed or a child touched. On the one hand, I am reassured that this lady has nothing but she was still extremely shocked. Will we have to wait until there are civilian, innocent victims, that we receive necessary means? “, The king’s prosecutor is indignant. During another shooting, a bullet pierced a housing window.
“Each Brussels resident, each person circulating in Brussels can take a lost bullet in their windshield or can take a lost ball while it works on a sidewalk. And that is totally inadmissible. And therefore, it is for these victims, certainly, that we will fight to resolve the facts and dismantle these groups”he adds.
Justice in the face of the violence of drug trafficking
In Brussels, police and judicial authorities explain working hard to identify the perpetrators of drug trafficking. “”I would not want us to think that justice does not do its job. Justice does its job! To give you figures, since January 2025, 6,211 suspects have been brought to the prosecution, 6,211 adults and also 874 minors, Develops the magistrate.
A question: do these arrests destabilize certain criminal groups? Since the start of these waves of shootings, more than 1,500 people have been incarcerated. The Brussels prosecution says it wants to provide a maximum response. “”There are more than 600 people involved in crime organized in Brussels but there are also thousands of potential workers, especially illegal, which constitutes an easy workforce. It should not be believed that 10 years, 20 years, even 30 years of laxity will be resolved in six months. The message I want to convey to citizens is that we are firmly responding to everything we are going “Keeps Julien Moinil.
Today it is constantly recalling by the authorities, a point of deal in Brussels can earn 30, 40, 50,000 euros per week. The business is extremely lucrative and one can imagine why some people believe that you have to fight to appropriate the territory. Faced with this struggle, Julien Moinil considers that Belgium could do better, even if the efforts are already numerous.
The lack of means
“In reality, there are lots of brakes to our work. A first is obviously consumption. For several months, a fairly strict policy has been carried out with regard to recreational consumers (…) we have quadrupled the responses in terms of immediate perception“explains the king’s prosecutor.
There is no public health policy worthy of the name in Brussels which allows the management of this drug addiction
To combat the heaviest cases of insurance, the Brussels judicial authorities would like to create a treatment chamber of drug addiction. But to the great despair of Julien Moinil, “the means we have requested are not granted. He adds: “There is no public health policy worthy of the name in Brussels which allows the management of this drug addiction. Just count the number of beds or ambulatory care available. It’s totally insufficient “, He deplores.
In the absence of Brussels government?
Without regional government, Brussels is not helped in the fight against drug trafficking. Difficult to take measures without majority in place. In the Federal, there would however be things to put in place to prevent leaders of criminal organizations from working directly from the prison.
We have facts every day that is commissioned from the prison
“They have unlimited telephone means with GSM, 4G, connection, etc. I challenged the Ministry of Justice about securing prisons. I hear there is an upcoming plan. It’s urgent! We have facts every day that has been commanded from the prison. We even have people who are under arrest warrant for acts committed in prison. So I ask that leaders of criminal organizations be in high security regimes to prevent them from being able to continue to deploy their strategy from the prison“, insists Julien Moinil.
No thank you to the authorities
To combat drug trafficking, 30 investigators came to strengthen the Brussels PJF. This is a positive point for Julien Moinil even if the framework of the federal police remains largely incomplete. “”It is not normal that the capital of Europe cannot have a full -frame police. I need other investigators. I also need investigators for active criminal groups in drugs that import cocaine in Brussels“, Harts Julien Moinil.
At the Brussels prosecutor’s office, the team of magistrates was reinforced but out of the question for the King’s prosecutor to say thank you to the federal authorities. “”We were able to hire magistrates, that’s fine. But I will not thank the government to simply respect the law. The law provides for executives and we are authorized to recruit. And I will be very clear, with regard to additional means for shootings, we have not received anything“, He is alarmed.
In addition to delays in the encoding of ballistic expertise (400 in total in Brussels), another obstacle to the culmination of surveys concern the king’s prosecutor: people in illegal situations in our country and which constitutes an easy workforce for traffickers.
“Brussels police, since the start of the year, arrested 4,595 illegal criminals, without a residence permit. And out of 100 illegal people, criminals arrested, there are 91 who are released by the foreigners’ office. So that means that out of 100, you only have nine that are the subject of a closed center placement. And I understand the sometimes demotivation of certain police officers who stop twice, three times, even dozens of times the same individual who is not placed in a closed center “Regrets the magistrate.
In this context of laxityit is very difficult to stop the phenomenon. Surprising according to Julien Moinil that “It happens like that when we are told a strict policy in terms of immigration “.
Choice time
For the prosecutor of the King of Brussels, ” There are two choices: either justice and we do nothing and that means that the points of deal will continue, or justice takes responsibility and incarcerates and incarcerates“.
And facing the scourge of drug trafficking, Julien Moinil seems determined: “We are motivated. We are not going to concede anything. We will never let it go, but in grace, I do not want us to have innocent victims before there is a reaction worthy of the name. Citizens could regain peace much more quickly if the government gives an absolute priority to internal security. I think the number of shootings is unacceptable “, He concludes.
