During a shooting in the Brussels metro, a dead person fell on Saturday evening. The Brussels Public Prosecution Service has confirmed this. Around 9.30 pm several shots were fired at the Clemenceau metro stop in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht. The victim was a 19-year-old man from Anderlecht who would have been hit in his back and died on the spot, several Belgian media report, including Het Nieuwsblad. The police are looking for the perpetrators.
A week earlier, it was also shot at the exact same Brussels metro station. The perpetrators then fled, with a Kalashnikov in hand, in the tunnels of the metro. They were not found. A day later a passer -by was shot in his leg. Elsewhere in Anderlecht there was a dead person in a shooting. In another Brussels municipality, Sint-Joost-ten-Node, two people were injured in a fourth shooting incident in the same week.
At least three of the four incidents are related to violence in the drug environment, writes The standard. According to the authorities, drug dealers are fighting a “violent war” in the Belgian capital. It is unclear whether the shooting on Saturday evening also has to deal with drug trafficking. The newly appointed Belgian Minister of the Interior Bernard Quintin, affiliated with the French -speaking Liberal Party MR, came to the Clemenceau metro stop on Saturday evening. There he spoke of a “totally unacceptable situation” and called on to “strict and strong measures.”