A 22-year-old Colombian girl was held against her will on New Year’s Eve in a house in Curange, near Hasselt, in the province of Limburg, local police said on Saturday, who intervened on the spot in collaboration with the federal police.
Special units of the federal police raided the house around 1:00 a.m. on Saturday and ended the girl’s illegal deprivation of liberty.
The suspect would be “a man with whom the victim had been in contact from Colombia for some time“said Dorien Baens, spokesman for the Limburg Regio Hoofdstad area police.
The 60-year-old man was arrested and taken to the police station.