In the Antwerp district of Merksem, an eleven-year-old girl died on Monday evening when a house was shot at. That's what the local police say. “This has all the appearance of a settlement within the drug environment,” says Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever.
The child shot dead is the niece of a 'wealthy Antwerp drug criminal'.

Antwerp has been crazy lately.

A building belonging to the Antwerp family EH has been hit by drug violence twelve times, the last time that happened on Monday night. The family has been the target of drug criminals for more than three years now. The Gazet van Antwerpen wrote a short profile of the two brothers Naim and Ilias, who made it from street dealers to players in international cocaine smuggling.