Belgium Wants To Bring In Army To Fight 'drug Cartel Wars'
4- 6.09.2025, 19:51
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The police can't handle it.
Belgian Interior and Security Minister Bernard Kenten has allowed the involvement of the army to fight crime related to confrontations between different groups of drug traffickers.
This is reported by Politico.
Kenten allowed the army to be deployed on the streets of Brussels to stop forceful "showdowns" between groups of drug traffickers who also pose a danger to random people around.
"The army must defend the territorial integrity of the country. Usually the military does that on our borders or far beyond them. But the war on drug crime is also what can be called defending our territory," the minister told De Standaard, also noting that he considers the situation in Brussels "catastrophic."
Last month, Brussels prosecutor Julien Mouanil said there was a growing crime problem. There have been 57 shooting incidents in Brussels this year alone, 20 of them during the summer. A separate shooting incident in Brussels in February led to the temporary closure of many of the capital's metro stations.