Last night, there was yet another shooting incident in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Gillis. It’s the third such incident in the borough in as many days. An automatic weapon was reportedly used.
This is the sixth such incident in Brussels in only a few days. The shots were fired from an automatic weapon at the junction of the Gustave Defnetstraat and the Montenegrostraat. No one was injured. The perpetrator is on the run.
A similar incident occurred at the same junction on Saturday. One person was injured in that incident. A man was hit in the leg, but his injuries are not life-threatening.
On Sunday, shots were fired on the Vorstsesteenweg in Sint-Gillis. A bullet pierced the window of a flat on the Fontainasstraat. Nobody was injured, but the occupant of the flat was in bed at the time and was deeply shaken.
One person was also injured in a shooting on Sunday night, which also took place near the Vorstsesteenweg. Two people were arrested shortly afterwards. That same night, there was another shooting in the borough of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek.
Jean Spinette, Mayor of Sint-Gillis, linked last weekend’s shootings to violence between drug gangs. Sooner or later, innocent people will be killed, he said.
Earlier, on Friday night, several shots had been fired at a police station on the Demosthenesstraat in Anderlecht.