gangsters gun in your own house the only saving grace is that until now they have not killed anyone but the community is in no mood to let matters deteriorate further even indicating that they might shift base if such incidents continue we have started building pressure on the belgian authorities through our contacts in india says an antwerpbased diamond trader we want more security for our families the areas where the gujarati diamantaires have their homes should be provided better police patrolling and additional deployment of armed guards one more heist and we will seriously consider shifting base to dubaitrade tremors there are 400 gujarati families living in belgium most of them connected to the diamond trade the antwerp diamond centre is contained in a two square mile area which houses 1850 companies about 70 per cent of which are owned by gujaratis almost 25 years ago antwerp had more than 30000 cutters and polishers but now their number has decreased to only about 1000 as most of the manufacturing has moved to surat antwerps diamond industry was earlier controlled by jews but the tide started to turn about two decades ago when the gujaratis started beating the jews many jews are worried about the new competitive pressure and now prefer to meet clients in the privacy of their offices for fear that indians will poach their remaining business