2023-08-04 17:13:00
It was a very funny misadventure, even a chilling moment, that Philippe (assumed first name) experienced this Tuesday during lunchtime, when he was at his home, in the center of Grez, installed in her living room, in front of her computer… “My wife had gone to babysit her granddaughter for a few moments. It must have been around 12:45 p.m. I heard the front door open. From my living room, I didn’t no direct view of the hallway My dogs barked I just yelled once they were quiet… In my mind it was my wife coming in. But I was surprised she didn’t come in in the living room. I figured she had to talk to someone in front of the house…”
Philippe continues his activity but a few moments later, he hears a noise above him, where his room is. “I heard the dresser drawer open. Again, nothing abnormal for me, I said to myself, well, the little one may have regurgitated, and she is changing…” But then follows a second noise drawer, then a third…
A resident of Grez-Doiceau comes face to face with a thief in his room… and holds him until the police arrive
“No problem”
“I found it surprising but there too, at no time did I think of anything in particular. I wondered why my son, who was upstairs in his room, was snooping around in mine. I still decided to go to my room to see what he was doing and, oh surprise, when I opened the door, I came face to face with an individual, in his thirties, visibly in the process of search the premises. He turned to me, and raised his arms in the air, shouting “No problem” before continuing but I did not understand his language…”
Philippe does not let himself be impressed and with great composure, asks his burglar for an explanation, visibly unable to line up a word in French. “I asked him what he was doing there…I also shouted for my son to join me as I didn’t have my phone with me. When my son arrived I asked him to call the police but he had to get out because in the house, the network passes very difficult. The burglar wanted to leave the room, I opposed it. As he insisted and wanted to force the exit, I belted him as I I might. So he stayed calm…”
At least for a few moments because obviously, the individual understood that the police were coming and had no intention of meeting her.
“There, he mightn’t move anymore”
“He then struggled to get away…He slipped away from me and rushed for the stairs but I was able to catch him and stop him. He continued to struggle like hell and like I didn’t I mightn’t grab hold of him well, he was able to get out once more and dove down the stairs, to the point of falling down part of them… I went down the stairs but he had already got up to run down the hall towards the front door. There I shouted at my son to block the door from the outside, while I managed to stop him once more. Then I also learned that my step- daughter was also outside and was also helping to hold the door… As he kept moving, I somehow managed to sweep him over to find myself on top of him, on the ground. able to move.”
Police officers from the Brabant Ardennes area arrived in stride. “Within five minutes they were there and then took matters into their own hands.”
According to the information provided, the individual is a Romanian national born in 1986. He will appear on August 23 before the criminal court in the context of an accelerated procedure. “It’s still incredible the nerve of these people. One thing is certain, I change my lock at the front and no longer leave a latch outside, from now on it will be a ball”, indicates Philippe who is now trying to recover from his emotions.
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