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Brussels police have responded to another drug-related shooting over the weekend, this time at Place Lehon in Schaerbeek in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Brussels mayors are demanding stronger measures to combat drug violence in the Belgian capital.
One person has died after a series of shootings near Porte de Hal in Brussels in recent days.
A plan to combat violence on public transport in Flanders includes allowing ticket inspectors to wear bodycams and issuing individual bans on boarding buses.
Brussels mayor Philippe Close and the capital’s police force have come under fire for defending the administrative arrests of schoolchildren in the aftermath of recent rioting in France.
Police from the Brussels-West police division (Molenbeek, Berchem-Saint-Agathe, Ganshoren, Jette and Koekelberg) are in the news again, following a drunken fight with Brussels schoolchildren.
One person has died and another has been seriously injured after a fight between rival gangs on a platform at Zaventem station on Friday.
Conductors for Belgian rail operator SNCB are protesting until at least 15 February after a spate of violent attacks from passengers that have left them feeling unsafe on the job.
Eleven young people along with the Belgian Human Rights League (LDH) are taking the country to court over the use of violence from police against protestors in a demonstration in Brussels on 24 Ja
