The criminal court of Namur proceeded on Monday to the hearing instruction in a file of attempted murder which took place on July 24, 2021 on the esplanade of the citadel of Namur.
Several groups of revelers were gathered there when an altercation broke out following one of those present asked the defendant for a cigarette. Feeling threatened, the latter seized a weapon, a Browning 357, which was in his car. A single bullet was fired in the direction of four people and passed through the hand of a first victim before lodging in the chest of a second.
A judgment relating to the carrying out of an expertise will be rendered on January 9th. Incorporated as a civil party, the victim hit in the hand retains the following-effects of the scene. “I no longer feel my fingers, I feel like local anesthesia in my right forearm. They removed two centimeters of artery, the bones were in a thousand pieces, the nerves were affected. The second victim affected suffered a temporary incapacity for work for six months.
