Belgium has acknowledged that its primary rail gateway has become a festering sore of drug abuse, poverty and violence.
Belgium takes on the presidency of the 27-nation EU in January for six months. Governments who hold the presidency typically use the opportunity to bask in the global attention to promote their nation.
As an immediate measure, it was announced that a special police station will be set up at the existing station at the train station to make interventions easier. Vander Taelen blamed Belgium’s Byzantine political structure of overlapping local, regional and national authorities who he said all too often blame each other instead of actually doing something in unison.As criticism mounted, police organized highly publicized raids through the massive railway station, picking up and detaining several people while a cleaning team did away with much of the muck and dirt.
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