“We had to pay for our security there. We had barely started filming and they were already there with Molotov cocktails. The police couldn’t do anything. We were filming in Molenbeek with a lot of equipment, a lot of trucks and a lot of people“, raconte Bert Hamelinck.
Pay or stop filming
In addition, the general director of “Caviar” also explains to our colleagues that the police told them that they could not protect them.” People whose identities we don’t really know suddenly arrived with offers of payment. They threatened us with Molotov cocktails and fire bombs. We had a choice: pay or stop filming“, relates the producer, specifying that he had been authorized to stay and that the filming took place without incident.
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The film’s security budget almost tripled, going from 30,000 euros to more than 80,000 euros, according to our colleagues at HLN.
Our justice system does not work
Who were these threatening people? Members of a mafia? Asked Bart Schols at the helm of the show. “We are talking about a film by Adil and Bilall, with many actors in the cast who come from Molenbeek and who know the region well. It was a very complicated period of filming. We worked there for two to three weeks and it wasn’t easy“, termine Bert Hamelinck.
Joris Van Cauter, a lawyer specializing in criminal cases who was present on the set, is sounding the alarm. “That in Brussels, you have to pay a kind of mafia to be able to work in complete safety, it’s unimaginable… It’s the absolute failure of the rule of law. It’s because the justice system doesn’t work“.
