Police in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek found a machine gun and a revolver when they carried out a search of a taxi. The public prosecutor’s office reports that the passengers in the taxi were questioned by police and have since been detained by an examining magistrate.
On Wednesday evening police in several Brussels municipalities carried out extra checks on vehicles following a spate of shootings in the capital in recent weeks. A taxi that was travelling along the Mariemontkaai in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek was among the vehicles checked. In the taxi the police found, an automatic weapon, a revolver with a silences and munition.
The firearms and munition were confiscated, and the taxi driver and the 3 passengers were taken in for questioning by police. The three passengers faced further questioning by an examining magistrate who decided that they should be formally arrested.
The prosecutor’s office says that the investigation is ongoing and that it won’t be making any further comment at this stage.