At least four people injured in a shooting in the center of Brussels

At least four people have been injured, one of them seriously, this Wednesday in a shooting in the center of Brussels, in the Toison d'Or shopping gallery, according to police sources, who specify that for the moment the perpetrator of The events have not been stopped.

According to the mayor of the Ixelles commune, environmentalist Christos Doulkeridis, the shooting would be part of an “urban gang scenario.”. In addition, several judicial sources confirmed to the Belga agency that the possibility of a drug-related reckoning has not been ruled out.

The local police were alerted around 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday that an attack had occurred in the center of the Belgian capital, where several ambulances and members of the police were sent.

According to the local newspaper nieuwsblad.be, a group of people were in the pedestrian zone on the Gulden Vlies side of the street when suddenly a man approached them, took out a gun and shot them at point-blank range.. The pedestrians ran and the attacker chased them for a while with a loaded gun.

Three of the injured were found in three different places: one in a cafeteria, a second right in front of an Apple Store and a third a little further away.

The police officers have cordoned off the area without finding the alleged perpetrator(s) of the event, indicated the spokeswoman for the local Brussels Police.

The owner of a restaurant located inside the Toison d'Or shopping gallery told the newspaper Le Soir the story of the events transmitted to him by several people who took refuge in his premises immediately after the shooting, including a tourist wounded in a leg. According to this story, the perpetrator of the events was a man who shot several times. The owner of the restaurant assured that the shopping center's security cameras filmed the events.