The Paramilitary Enigma of the Brabant Killers
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Today we speak to independent researcher Nic from Blue Rose Reports. He's talking to us about the mystery surrounding the paramilitary attacks of Belgium's unsolved "Brabant Killers" case, and why it's been recently reopened.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:07.0 | We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict all across the world. |
| 0:13.6 | Popular Front is completely independent. |
| 0:16.6 | Today we're speaking to Nick from Blue Rose Reports. |
| 0:20.4 | He is an independent researcher and he is going to be talking to us about Today we're speaking to Nick from Blue Rose Reports. |
| 0:28.6 | He is an independent researcher and he is going to be talking to us about the mystery behind the so-called Brabant killers. |
| 0:36.6 | They were a group of loosely connected paramilitary cells that wreaked havoc across Brussels in the 70s and the 80s. To this day, no one really knows what they were doing or why they were doing it. |
| 0:41.7 | It's looking like there was collusion from the police and the state. |
| 0:45.3 | A new legal case into it has been opened recently. |
| 0:48.5 | Nick is going to explain the bizarre situation. |
| 0:52.3 | Support us at patreon.com slash popular front. |
| 1:00.0 | I think a lot of people are unaware of this outside Belgium or outside of Europe. |
| 1:03.7 | So firstly, please just explain to us what was, what is the Braebank killings? |
| 1:09.8 | Like, what is the crux of it before we go into theories |
| 1:13.3 | and everything else what actually was this event yeah so in the 80s belgium uh starting in |
| 1:19.2 | in 1982 in march of 1982 uh and ending in the fall of 1985 there were a a series of attacks on mostly supermarkets. |
| 1:31.7 | And they were led by these masked, basically these sort of guys that looked like, you know, |
| 1:38.9 | they had military training. |
| 1:42.0 | They looked, they had all these guns, you know, they wouldn't hesitate to shoot at the clients or the employees of the supermarkets and all that. |
| 1:50.2 | And it's, you know, it's sort of like traumatized Belgium at the time because there was no reason really to these attacks. |
| 1:59.4 | They seem like they happened out of nowhere and the police forces couldn't do anything about |
| 2:04.9 | it and all that. |
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