How can I help my brother who is on drugs without my parents' cooperation?

Questioner

Dear, I don't really know where to start, it's very complex. My family has a family business where I work with my brother and parents. My younger brother no longer works here because it didn't go well 3 times in the past. I don't have a good relationship with my brother, he often does drugs in his free time and has beaten me up several times, I did defend myself, which is why I have already reported it to the police station twice. But I have not yet filed a real complaint because he is my brother (28 years old). Now my parents have been on vacation and something happened again that made him attack me at my work (because he lives above our family store). This time I didn't defend myself because I made it clear the last time that if he attacked me again I would file a complaint with the police. I was in the hospital with a broken foot and a broken nose and was unable to work for at least 5 weeks. The complaint was filed and all the documents and reports of my injuries were brought in. He also drove to my house and smashed a window in the house with a hammer and threatened me, my girlfriend and brother to take his own life and take mine with him. Now an investigation has been started in which I, my brother, little brother and father had to go to the police for questioning and there would be a lawsuit in which I explicitly asked, not for a fine but so that he would be obliged to receive help with his mental state, because I also fear for me and my family because he sees black at such moments. (I am expecting my first child in 8 weeks) Now I am being pressured and blackmailed by my family that I reported my own brother to the police and that they want to solve this all themselves in the family and do not want a lawsuit. Since I have been through this so often with my brother, this was the last straw and this time it has gone too far so I definitely want something to be done about it. The situation is unbearable with my parents, there is an argument every day, they are blackmailed every day that if I do not withdraw the lawsuit or the complaint I will lose my job, lose my parents, they argue at work every day. What can I do about this? I want it all to stop, but I also want my brother to get help since he does not want this voluntarily, my parents only protect him because they are afraid that things will get worse with him if they do not help him. Something has to be done and I want it to be put on paper with some kind of contract if that is possible without a lawsuit? How do I best approach this. Kind regards, Klaas

Lawyer

I think you are doing well, you can also go on early leave because of this situation if you are pregnant, that is not clear to me. It is not doing you any good now and that can end badly. What has been done or not done so far has not helped in any case.