Belgium is cocaine hub in Europe. The drug floods the continent via the port of Antwerp. Violence is also escalating in some ...

Lawyers arrives for a hearing before the court's verdict in the country's biggest ever drug trafficking trial at Brussels correctional court, at Justitia, in Brussels, on October 29, 2024.

Former Belgium international Radja Nainggolan has been arrested as part of an investigation into cocaine trafficking into Europe, the Brussels public prosecutor's office said.

Belgium’s port in Antwerp, 35 miles (55 kilometers) to the north, has increasingly been the center of European imports of cocaine, and has been hit by grenade explosions linked to gangland fighting.

Brussels’ Marolles is hardly ground zero of that trade and many of the 11,000 people living in its warren of narrow streets are among the poorest in the city of 1.2 million.

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The Brussels public prosecutor’s office confirmed that the soccer player was “deprived of his liberty in connection with this case.” Prosecutors later said that 16 people were arrested in total.