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Bereaved Senior Police Officer launches Anyone’s Child Belgium and new book calling for the legalisation of drugs

 

Deputy Chief of Police, Peter Muyshondt from Belgium, will explain why he wants drugs legally regulated at a public event in Antwerp. He will launch a new campaign ‘Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer Drug Control, Belgium’ and his new book, which tells the story of how losing his brother to drugs changed him from a drug warrior to an advocate of legally regulating and controlling drugs.

 

The public, press and politicians are invited to hear why bereaved families and members of the police force are uniting to campaign for the legal control and regulation of drugs and what that could mean for Belgium.

 

4th September, 20.00, Antwerpen – Walburgis kerk, Volkstraat 41, 2000

 

Speakers include:

 

Jorn Dangreau, judge

Cathy Matteï, addiction physician

Tom Decorte, professor in criminology

Evi Hanssen, television reporter

 

Peter Muyshondt– Deputy chief of police and father of three

“I was too much a cop and too little a brother. My brother would still be alive if drugs were legally regulated.”

 

Jane Slater – Project Manager of the Anyone’s Child Campaign:

“Legal regulation means taking drugs out of the hands of criminals and placing it under government control via doctors, pharmacists and licensed retailers. Criminalising the drug trade and drug users isn’t keeping our children safe, it’s putting them in grave danger. Our voices must be heard and our politicians must listen. We need to put governments in control of the drugs market, so that families are better ​protected.”  

 

​ENDS:​

Contact:

Jane Slater,​ Manager Anyone’s Child for Safer Drug Control, +44 7514 215836

Peter Muyshondt, Campaign Lead, Anyone’s Child, Belgium +32 476 98 00 33

To speak to family members from Anyone’s Child Campaign call 00 44 117 325 0295

 

Notes to editor

Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer Drug Control is an international network of families whose lives have been wrecked by current drug laws and are now campaigning to change them. https://anyoneschild.org/belgium

 

New book: Policy on speed, how the drug war prevents rational debate

Beleid op speed: hoe de drugoorlog alle zin voor rede versmoort

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beleid-speed-drugoorlog-alle-versmoort/dp/9460015948/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503498853&sr=1-1

 

Read more about how the war on drugs harms children: http://www.countthecosts.org/seven-costs/harming-children-and-young-people