24 hours following the election of Miss Belgium, Noémie still does not realize that a tragedy may have been avoided. She participated in the ceremony this Saturday evening and went on stage despite the situation. “We all have a solo passage on stage, when we are in evening dress. There I said to myself: “Yeah, all alone…”. As if we were actually the target. We were afraid“, confides Noémie. The 25-year-old Nandrinoise represented the district of Huy-Waremme for this 2023 edition.
The candidate’s parents were in the room during the incident. They admit it: they were afraid for their daughter, even if everything was well managed by the police. “When all the people were really installed in the room, there was a line of police who came and told us to evacuate the room. They took us down to another side room downstairs“, says Noémie’s father. “Suddenly, the emotion, the excitement of the show quickly subsided. We started asking questions. And yeah, we started to get scared regarding it“, specifies Noémie.v
This Sunday, the candidate and her relatives are well aware that a potential attack has been avoided.