Residents Verbrandendijk shocked after finding arsenal of weapons: Everything had here in the air can fly

Zwijndrecht, The discovery of a small arsenal of weapons in the flat of a 20-year-old woman to the Verbrandendijk in Zwijndrecht, near the tempers flare up. Detectives found, among others, moldable explosives, and eight hand grenades. The case came to light after the young woman in her own lap. “Just as well, she had everything here in the air can fly”, does it sound to the neighbours.

The neighbors of Birgit S. witnesses prefer not to name because the fear is there good in after Friday, a real arsenal of weapons was found in one of the five flats in the block of flats on the Verbrandendijk. Birgit S. called around two hours of the emergency services with the message that they are with a gun in her toe had shot. “We are woken up by the noise,” testified one neighbor. “We had first not a shot was discharged but we heard about the girl in the adjacent flat, loud vienna. A short time later an ambulance and stood by the police in front of the door. Still later came the lab, and to our great surprise, got up in the morning, a vehicle of the ontmijningsdienst DOVO for the door. The police, however, has not said what exactly was going on. Afterwards, we heard that there is a whole arsenal of weapons was found and even a number of grenades and explosives.”

It is still unclear where the gun came from, but supposedly was hidden there by the mate of Birgit S. Dovo had respects to Saturday its hands full with the cleanup. In total, eight hand grenades, four guns, a number of ontstekingsmechanismes and malleable explosives found in the flat. There was also a large amount of cocaine.

The neighbors realize that the worse could end up like the young woman, an explosive wrongly manipulated. “Then everything here was in the air flown”, they react angrily. “We hope that this is not Antwerp states are going to be where drug gangs together to target with heavy warmachine. The police had indeed once the area should inform. Nobody has told us what was going on. It's only now that we come to know that here explosives and grenades were found.”

The Flemish Interest if the case is also visited at the next session of the city council on Thursday 25 april. “Zwijndrecht seems more and more the perfect ‘hide away’municipality for the Antwerp drug world”, says leader Mariëtte Voogd. “I hope as a council member for years to cameras. Hopefully wait not really innocent victims.”