2023-08-20 12:18:00
Trash fires, damage to street furniture, groups of young people facing the police. The lower Meuse has been tormented since the death of a quad driver killed by the police this Friday evening. Leopoldo, who owns establishments in the Liège commune, makes the regrettable inventory of another restless night in Herstal.
Waking up this Sunday, it is horror for Leopoldo who discovers the state of his businesses. The establishments were rocked, damaged during the night. “All the ice debris, everything farted“, he testifies annoyed. The man has a recreation room which also serves as a dance hall. The building in question was partly destroyed by the thugs last night. There were a hundred of them. “You have to be careful because it still falls“, launches the owner who tries to open the glass door which crumbles a little more with the movement. At this place, Leopoldo organizes a “tea dance, every sunday“. This August 20, he was forced to “cancel everything, obliged“.
The town of Herstal bears the scars of the night of violence this Saturday. In the square, hooded gangs attacked all the businesses in their path. Cars were set on fire and projectiles were thrown. “It was the apocalypse“, says a resident, she adds: “I’ve lived here for 57 years, I’ve never seen this.“The Main Fear:”Something else will happen tonight“, says Rubi, whose bookstore was attacked before his very eyes.
This Sunday, municipal employees are busy securing the neighborhood. Jean-Louis Lefèvre, acting mayor, states that “calm has returned“and adds that he hears”make him reign until tonight and during the night“. However, he specifies that he is “not considered“to close Herstal, as was the case in Oupeye this Saturday.
These overflows come following the death of Domenico, 30, this Friday followingnoon. The young man was shot by a policeman. According to initial information from the Liège public prosecutor’s office, the victim ran into a law enforcement officer with his quad when he had been ordered to stop. It was then that his colleague used his weapon.
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