Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah: filming threatened by the mafia

Belgian-Moroccan directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah had dealings with the mafia during the filming of the film “Rebel” in Molenbeek.

The filming of the film “Rebel”, released in 2022 and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, did not take place in Molenbeek without a hitch. “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,” says Bert Hamelinck, CEO of the production company Caviar in the TV show “De afspraak”. VRT.