2023-04-30 14:41:00
Around 9:45 p.m. this Saturday, a patrol of two police officers arrives with their suits at the Anderlecht police station, rue Démosthène. According to Het Nieuwsblad, the two police officers then saw a man who appeared to be standing guard at the entrance to the building. When one of the officers came out and asked the man if he might help him, the latter immediately kicked the officer hard.
The assailant then allegedly tried to seize the officer’s service weapon, but his colleague immediately called in reinforcements from his colleagues at the police station. Several police officers intervened and finally managed to subdue the man. According to Het Nieuwsblad, five of them are unable to work for a fortnight following this incident.
According to commander Jürgen De Landsheer, this is a new case of “indiscriminate violence towards a patrol of policies. Beyond the reason for this aggression, it is also necessary to wonder regarding how to better protect the police once morest such behavior.insists the officer, who recalls the death, last November, of the policeman Thomas Monjoie, mortally wounded near the Gare du Nord, in Brussels.
The Brussels public prosecutor’s office has not yet been able to provide information on the incident.
According to our colleagues from Sudinfo, it was a suicide attempt by the police. By attacking the police, the individual wanted to end his life.
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