One individual was injured Saturday night in a shooting in a square in Saint-Gilles, Brussels. According to reports from AFP, cited by Interia, investigators tie the case to the settlements surrounding drug trafficking. The same day the police station in Anderlecht was shot down earlier. It's a signal that organized crime is increasingly aggressively checking national boundaries.
Shots fired in the square in Saint-Gilles
The shooting took place on Saturday evening in the square in Saint-Gilles, 1 of the Brussels municipalities. According to Interia, citing the AFP, 1 individual was injured and the preliminary lead leads to drug-related disputes. This is not an exotic crime book from a distant world. It is the capital city of Belgium, the seat of the EU institutions, a city presented by liberal elites as a business card of European modernity.
The police and the D.A. will find the details, the perpetrators and the exact motive. However, the basic fact is adequate for a serious discussion: if firearms appear on the streets of a large European city in the context of drugs, then the average citizen pays the price for years of soft safety policy. A country that loses control of neighborhoods first loses authority. Then people lose their sense of security.
Police station under fire
The background for Saturday events is even more serious. According to AFP, quoted by Swiss website Blick, on the night from Friday to Saturday Police station in Anderlecht was shot down. 2 masked assailants were expected to usage automatic weapons. No 1 was injured, but there were bullet marks on the front of the building. Belgian Home Minister Bernard Quintin described the attack as unacceptable and announced a tough fight against organised crime and drug trafficking.
It wasn't just an attack on the police station's wall. It was a message sent to you: we're ready to shoot even the police. In a well-functioning republic, this situation should trigger the alarm at the highest level. Conferences and assurances are not enough. There is simply a request for detention, convictions, property confiscation, closure of metastasis channels and political agreement that citizens' safety is higher than ideological resocialisation spells without real control.
European capital and real account
Brussels has been struggling with drug gangs for years, with Belgian media regularly describing shootings, pursuits and territorial wars. In this sense, the Saturday incidental did not fall from the sky. It is part of the wider crisis of the large cities of Western Europe, where drug trafficking, street force and the weakness of institutions make a mixture that is dangerous to average residents.
For Poland, the proposal is simple. safety does not come from good intentions or from EU seminars. It comes from borders, efficient police, courts that do not treat violent crime as a insignificant prank, and from a migration and urban policy subject to the interests of citizens. That is why the Polish debate on borders, crime and state control cannot be embarrassed by labels. It's not a right-wing obsession. This is the work of all country.
Lesson for Poland
Belgium has its own problems and its own responsibility. Poland should not pretend that this does not concern us. Any specified case in Western Europe shows where the tolerance of semi-legal areas, weak enforcement and political reversal of the effects of drug abuse leads. If the state is to be serious, it must be stronger than gangs, not more patient than its own citizens.
Poles have the right to anticipate a tough safety policy. They have the right to ask whether the prescriptions imported from the West lead to the same problems that we are looking at present in Brussels. Sovereignty starts with a very applicable thing: whether a household can walk easy down the street, and a policeman does not become the mark of gangster fire.
Source: Interia, AFP, Blick
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