Several hundred people gathered on Saturday followingnoon at Place Poelaert, in front of the Brussels courthouse, to demand clarity and justice regarding the death of Sourour Abouda, this 46-year-old Brussels resident found dead in a Brussels police cell. last January 12.
According to the Brussels public prosecutor’s office, the forty-something died of suicide, a version that the demonstrators once more questioned on Saturday. Employed in the social sector in Brussels for years, Sourour Abouda had been arrested in a drunken state on January 12 around 6 a.m. on rue Américaine in Brussels. She was then locked up in a Brussels police cell on rue Royale, where she was found lifeless a little later. The provisional conclusions of the autopsy report and the first elements of the investigation ruled out any intervention by a third party, according to the Brussels public prosecutor’s office, which evokes a suicide by strangulation with the help of a garment, which doubts his family though.
