An individual was arrested early this morning at the Stib Jacques Brel depot. He was trying to steal an articulated bus, an 18-meter-long Mercedes Citaro.
“A person actually wanted to leave the Jacques Brel depot at the wheel of an articulated bus and she was arrested by security when she wanted to leave this depot”, confirms the spokeswoman for Stib Françoise Ledune to our colleagues. of the Capital. “The police were then called and the person was arrested. This happened at 5:50 a.m., the bus had returned to the depot at 12:30 a.m.”.
According to the Brussels daily, the individual was strongly under the influence and would have said to the security agents permanently present on the site: “I was asked to come and get a bus”. This is further confirmed by the Brussels Midi police zone. “Given his state of influence, the suspect is still at the police station. We therefore do not yet know why he wanted to take this articulated Stib bus out of the Jacques Brel depot”, commented the spokeswoman for the Sarah area. Frederickx at La Capitale.
The thief was only caught because the Stib depot gate accidentally closed just before he got out. This is where the security guards questioned the driver, unknown to the other Stib drivers.
