“Murder or crime in La Louvière, rue de Belle-Vue”, “Road blocked on rue de Belle-Vue in La Louvière. It would be a murder”, “Murder in La Louvière, a 30-year-old young man with his throat slit, the author was arrested”. Many of you pressed the orange Alert us button to report a knife attack in La Louvière this Monday evening.
The attacker of the fifties stabbed to death on Monday in the center of La Louvière carried several dozen blows to the victim, said the prosecution on Tuesday morning. The motive for the attack has not yet been determined.
The facts took place on Monday around 6:10 p.m. in rue Belle-Vue, in the center of La Louvière. The victim died on the spot. The suspect, a Louviérois in his thirties, was arrested. He is known to the police and judicial authorities, in particular for driving offences. The prosecution, the investigating judge, the judicial police and the laboratory descended on the scene on Monday. An autopsy of the victim is to be performed Tuesday followingnoon. The hearing of the suspect was in progress Tuesday morning, according to the prosecution