This crops up every once so often. Not even on the national news but for some reason international media like to report on it.

Of course there are rumors about the Antwerp harbor, and of politicians being involved along with real estate developers, but the cops are not incentivized to investigate that. Instead they are told focus on low-level drug dealers in Brussels because that's easier to smear all over the local news to worry have people about the 'drugs problem', all for the next increase of police budgets and erosion of civil rights.

Step 1: legalize

Step 2: nationalize

Step 3: profit

Step 4: With the profit help people to go out of their addiction

It is telling that the magistrates went to a UK newspaper and that it was then covered in the Belgian press: https://www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/van-de-ene-dag-op-de-andere-moet-je-je-huis-verlaten-hoe-de-drugsoorlog-rechters-in-belgie-raakt~b08f2d2b/

Could it be that they decided to escalate beyond Belgium because they didn't reach the necessary impact in Belgium itself?