VIDEO. Infamous ‘drugsboerderij’ burnt out

Zonhoven To the Kolverenstraat in Zonhoven is tonight is the infamous ‘drugsboerderij’ destroyed by a heavy fire. Witnesses saw about 0.20 hours, suddenly a heavy smoke around the building, that at the end of last year was sealed by the police. Or the fire is lit, is now investigated.

The remote farm stood at the arrival of the fire brigade is already in full fire. The nearby firemen could not otherwise than the stamps disconnect that the police had previously applied to the gate and the front door, after a judicial investigation. The farm was on 9 november last year, after all, a drugsfabriekje discovered. Since then, the property was regularly under police surveillance. How it could be that in the farm last night, however, fire could arise, is not clear yet. Fire zone South-West of Limburg had certainly flock to arrive on the scene to fight the fire. They were still up in the early morning busy with nablussen. In the spacious environment was long time a large plume of smoke to see. Also the local police Limburg Region Capital came on site for an extensive research.

Raid on 9 november

On november 9, 2018 first was a truck full of drugsafval found along the Bruinstraat, near the conscious farm in the district of ‘the Kolveren’ in Zonhoven. That proved bizarre enough in ‘breakdown’ cases. The firemen had that day with a gaspakteam on the spot, to the hazardous waste out of the truck to pick up and clean up. During the investigation, were alert local residents to the police know, that they have the same suspicious smell from the truck was, even though it had noted around an old farm on the Kolverenstraat. Immediately went people the same day along with the farm. There was no one present, but the tv in the living room to play still. In the adjacent barn turned out to be a industrial drugsfabriekje developed. The whole area was cordoned off for an investigation.

Crew of Faroek

During the episode of the VTM program Faroek on 21 april this year, allowed a camera crew inside the abandoned farmhouse, come and film. The walls, the floor and the insulation material in the building were heavily damaged by the corrosive substances in the production of the drugs were free. According to the police also need the producers in particular, unsafe and unhealthy conditions have worked. For the entire area, there was actually a serious hazard to environmental damage and even fire and explosion. Therefore, it was after the invasion the necessary steps to make the hazardous substances, under the guidance of the fire brigade and the civil protection. About the state of the research, and whether any arrest had happened since the raid of november last year, could the police still do not communicate. The fire in the abandoned and sealed building now seems again suspicious.