A clandestine laboratory manufacturing ecstasy pills has been discovered near a Belgian military base, which also houses nuclear weapons under American control, as part of the NATO system.
According to information provided by the Belgian Defense and reported by the Huffington Post, the laboratory was so close that the Defense initially believed that it was in the base. A first press release from the public prosecutor’s office of the Belgian province of Limburg (north) had underlined in the afternoon that the clandestine laboratory, discovered last week, was located ” in the military field ».
« On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, the local police in the Kempen discovered a synthetic drug laboratory, located on the military estate (NATO) in Peer » et « used for the production of MDMA (or ecstasy), could we read in this press release. The laboratory “ was dismantled by the specialized services of the federal police, in collaboration with the National Institute of Criminology (NICC) and the Civil Protection “, then specified the text. It would seem that ” a neighboring house be involved in the creation of this clandestine laboratory.
In the evening, the Belgian Defense rectified the information of the prosecution to AFP. According to the Belgian authorities, this infrastructure is located on former military land, near the base but not on the air base itself.
According to the same source, two people were arrested on the spot when the installation was discovered. These two suspects, released after being questioned by the investigators, are not Defense employees “, she said.
A base long kept secret
Belgium, a member of the politico-military organization which is in fact led by the United States, has long chosen to keep secret the presence of nuclear weapons on the base of Kleine-Brogel, where a contingent of the US army. A secret that hasn’t been since the end of the 1980s; a Belgian minister had then recognized the presence of these armaments. However, their exact number has never been disclosed. The surroundings of the site – a large perimeter of approximately 4 km by 3 km, according to a spokesperson for the Defense – have repeatedly been the subject of demonstrations denouncing this lack of transparency.
In 2019, Belgian MP Samuel Cogolati estimated that ” from 10 to 20 » nuclear warheads were stored under American control on this base.