In the Brussels municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, a man was injured again in a shooting on the street on the night of Friday to Saturday. The Molenbeek police confirmed this. This year there have already been at least 23 shootings in the capital, linked to the drug environment.
The shooting happened on Friday evening at 11:30 PM, in Vanderdussenstraat in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. Unknowns shot from a car with a French license plate at a man walking on the street. Four bullets were reportedly fired, although the police do not want to confirm that number for the time being.
The man was injured in the leg, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. According to the first rumors, this shooting would also be linked to the drug environment.
At the beginning of September, Brussels Attorney General Johan Delmulle pointed out that there had already been 18 shootings on the streets of Brussels this year, in the context of drug conflicts and territorial disputes between city gangs. “Six people have already died.” Twenty others were seriously injured. “The violence has never reached the level we know today,” Delmulle said.
That number has only increased in recent weeks. On September 13, a man was executed with a Kalashnikov in a shopping street in Anderlecht.
Two weeks later, two victims were injured by a shooting in Ixelles. One of the victims was a woman who happened to pass by and was hit by a stray bullet. At the beginning of this month, a house was shot at in Vorst.
Earlier this week, on Wednesday evening, a man was shot in the leg in Brussels’ North district in Schaarbeek.
