07:03 – Crime continues to fall, unlike cybercrime

Crime continued to decline last year in Belgium, unlike cybercrime, including online fraud, reveals Friday, in The Last Hour and Het Laatste Nieuws, Marc De Mesmaeker, the new Commissioner General of the Federal Police.There was thus last year much less burglaries. These are down 6.6%, to 52,816 crimes. More generally, crime, which still exceeded the one million cases four years ago, only reached the figure of 860,604 in 2017. Between 2016 and last year, the most spectacular fall is terrorism, extremism and radicalism. We went from 781 to 489 facts. This mainly involves participation in the activities of a terrorist group and dissemination of hate propaganda. The phenomenon is actually a more stable level since it was 402 in 2014. Cybercrime, however, increased from 43,800 cases in 2016 to 44,165. The facts of grooming, these acts of making badual propositions to minors using electronic means (social networks, etc.), for example, increased by 19% between 2016 and 2017. Internet fraud, climbs, she also, almost 6%. As the use of intimate images broadcast without the agreement of the person on the clichés, most often badual. (Belga)

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