THE GANG FROM NIJVEL 1985

In 1985, a gang known as the Bende van Nijvel (Gang of Nijvel- an industrial town in Belgium) terrorized Belgium with brutal attacks on supermarkets and shooting the shoppers down at random. Among them there was a giant  known as "de Reus" (The Giant). They never caught them. or arrested any of them It was believed they were financed by the extreme right to destabilise Belgium.

I made this cartoon about them queuing up at the dole office ( In Belgium you had to get a stamp on a card for every day you were unemployed to benefit from the government allowance; you needed to sign on everyday with your pink coloured card). It was crisis and I see parallels with the crisis today.

I have never seen so many reports on gangsters in Belgium as back then. There was also the extreme left wing gang known as CCC (Cellules Combatantes communistes).

However, recently we are back with jihad terrorism, to square one. I made loads of government critical cartoons.