At least five months of hearings, 125 defendants of fifteen different nationalities, a bunker court… The trial organized in Brussels from Monday should make it possible to explore behind the scenes of coke trafficking in Europe.
The event is worthy of the resounding anti-mafia trials in Italy. 125 defendants, including 47 placed in preventive detention, have appeared since Monday before the Brussels Criminal Court. They must answer for drug trafficking, arms trafficking, attempted extortion or even arbitrary detention and kidnapping.
This mega trial, unprecedented in Belgium in the fight against drug trafficking, is expected to last five months. The dismantled criminal organization is suspected of having set up vast cocaine trafficking between South America and Europe, with the Belgian capital as the network’s logistical center.