2023-08-19 18:35:14
A TEC bus, a public transport company in Wallonia, was the target of rioters who clashed with the police in Oupeye overnight from Friday to Saturday, the company announced late Saturday afternoon. . In a press release, the TEC indicates that it condemns any act of violence against its staff.
“Faced with the violence of the events that took place in Oupeye last night, the TEC wishes to lend its full support to the driver of line 7, attacked, around midnight, by a large group of young people who stoned his bus.“, explains the company, which also welcomes “the attitude shown by the driver in the performance of his duties, both in his ability to secure himself despite the circumstances and in his management of this traumatic event“.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, between 10:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m., a gathering of organized gangs took place near the castle of Oupeye following the events which had led to the death of a young man on Friday, killed by a police shooting in the neighborhood. A dozen arrests had been made. “I’ve never seen that in Oupeye, these are real scenes of urban guerrilla warfare and riots that we witnessed“, had commented the mayor Serge Fillot earlier in the day.
According to initial information, the victim, who had refused to comply with the order of the police officers, while driving his quad dangerously, had rushed and rolled over a policeman while the latter had tried to stop it. His colleague then pulled out his gun and fired.
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