Police shot dead a man in Huy early Sunday followingnoon. The events took place in rue Paul Carré.
Contacted by us, the prosecution relayed some initial information. These still have to be validated by this evening. The police were reportedly called following a man in crisis who broke everything in his home. It seems he was armed with a saber. When they got there, the police found themselves facing the individual in the street. The man was said to be threatening and the police opened fire. The resident died at the scene.
The words of bourgmestre Eric Dosogne, informed by the police chief, seem to confirm these first elements. “When the police arrived, the person had returned to his home and then left his home and was threatening to a policeman with a large knife, a large blade, a kind of saber, we has not yet given me very specific information“, he explains.”The officers asked him to put down his gun, but he became increasingly threatening to the officer. With his days in danger, he had no choice but to shoot“.
No information is available for the moment on the profile of the man in question or on any possible criminal record.
An investigation will be carried out to establish the exact circumstances of the incident.
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