11-Year-Old Girl Killed in Antwerp Drug Gang Shooting, Police Investigate

"The 11-year-old girl was seriously injured. She was taken to the hospital, but unfortunately she died shortly afterwards," said Willem Migom, spokesperson for the Antwerp police, on Tuesday. Initially, the agents thought the young girl had succumbed to the explosion of a microwave oven hit by a projectile. But the autopsy results are clear, she was hit by bullets. According to the first elements of the investigation opened by the public prosecutor’s office, the little girl is a collateral victim of a settling of scores in the drug milieu, reports RTL.

A thesis confirmed by Mayor Bart De Wever. "What I had feared for a long time has happened. A drug war is raging and criminals are attacking the homes of other criminals. The big shots are in Dubai, Turkey, Morocco... It is their family members who are targeted," he explains, specifying that this is the second shooting on this street in a week. The victim’s family is known in the drug world, with uncles who have already been convicted of