Five youths will be brought before a Belgian court on Tuesday (14/5) as part of a “homicide” investigation after they allegedly threw a manhole cover off a highway bridge, killing a Romanian truck driver, prosecutors said today. Namur.
On the night of last Friday to Saturday, on the E42 highway that connects Liège with Namur, the suspects threw the manhole cover, tied with a strap, from a bridge. The heavy plate pierced the windshield of a truck, killing the driver, a man of Romanian origin, on the spot.
The driver’s partner, who was next to him in the cab, managed to stop the vehicle without leaving the road.
According to local media, the perpetrators had used nitrous oxide pills, the so-called “laughing gas” that has psychoactive effects. The prosecutor’s office in Namur did not want to comment on this information. “Suspect statements (to the police) are ongoing,” a spokeswoman said.
Of the five suspects, two are minors and the other three are “young adults.” All of them come from the community of Aden, near Heron, the spokeswoman added. Tomorrow they will be brought before an investigator who will decide on their pre-trial detention.
The Romanian driver worked for the Spanish transport company Castillo Trans.
Sources: APE-MPE, AFP
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