Four Dutchmen were arrested in Antwerp on Tuesday for driving around with incendiary bombs and a firearm. Report that Belgian media. The car of the young men attracted the attention of the police around 5 a.m. in a suburb of the Belgian city, who proceeded to check. It is unclear what the four were up to; the Belgian police and judicial authorities are investigating this. The suspects are currently being questioned.
The boys, all between seventeen and twenty years old, were riding near an eatery owned by kickboxer Jamal Ben Saddik’s family. That eatery was the target of arson and shelling this summer, so the police in the area are paying extra attention. The mayor of Antwerp Bart de Wever decided last week to close the eatery, as did two other businesses that were recently the target of attacks.
Antwerp has been the scene of some thirty shelling, arson and other attacks this summer, more than the total number of incidents in 2021 in the port city. It always seems to be about mutual settlements by underworld figures. The drug mafia in the Flemish port city is closely intertwined with that in the Netherlands. The Belgian VRT news opened Monday evening with the warning that the same criminal terror awaits Antwerp as in the Netherlands in recent years.
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