2023-10-04 11:04:00
For several days, on the social networks Facebook and Instagram, various associative and committed movements in Namur (and elsewhere) have been relaying a call for witnesses concerning a scene that occurred on September 29 around 4:30 p.m. at Square Léopold. A video has since come to support this citizen research.
Published by the Bruxelles.devie channel on Instagram, the 38-second sequence, without sound and trembling, captures the intervention of four police officers with a man of African origin, in one of the lawns of Square Léopold. The man appears to have been bitten by a dog, whose paws no longer touch the ground, while two members of the police hit and overpower him, under the gaze of two others and passers-by.
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Tweezers and an open judicial investigation
This Wednesday, at the start of the day, we tried to contact the head of the corps Olivier Libois on this subject, without response so far. But, a few hours later, on October 4, the Namur public prosecutor’s office communicated: “A video is currently circulating on social networks denouncing an intervention by the Namur police services which took place on September 29, 2023 at Square Léopold around 4:30 p.m. video must be interpreted with caution because it only shows part of the intervention, without taking into consideration its overall context. The judicial investigation which is underway will make it possible to determine, on the one hand, the exact motives and circumstances of police intervention, and on the other hand, whether the use of coercion was justified.”
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