Groups from the Brabant underworld have threatened to assassinate a police officer from the Zeeland-West Brabant unit. The endangered employee is active in the fight against drug crime in Brabant.

To make it clear that the police are aware of the threat, Wednesday discussions were held with representatives of the criminal gangs. Nobody has been arrested. This was confirmed by a police spokesman on Thursday following an interview given by Chief of Unit Hanneke Ekelmans to BN / De Stem.

'Chilly death threat'
The policeman speaks in the interview of an unprecedented, new escalation that illustrates the hardening of crime. "This is a deliberate, cold death threat with purely criminal motives. We have never experienced it here, as far as I know, "she says.