2023-08-09 10:49:00
The second suspect wanted since the death of a 50-year-old man discovered dead overnight from Monday to Tuesday on the street rue du Petit Coron in Marchienne-au-Pont (Charleroi, Hainaut) was deprived of his liberty on Tuesday following- noon, said the Charleroi public prosecutor’s office on Wednesday morning. He was known to the police.
The suspicious death was noted by the emergency services overnight from Monday to Tuesday in an alley in Marchienne-au-Pont. Shortly before the death of the 50-year-old, a mobile phone theft took place. “Monday, around 10:00 p.m., while the fifty-year-old was traveling on the public highway with his daughter and son-in-law, two men asked him for money. They stole his mobile phone and the victim’s companions fled and informed the police.“, detailed the Charleroi public prosecutor’s office. According to our information, it might well be a settling of accounts concerning a debt of money.
“We are afraid to leave our homes, that’s what I can tell you. I didn’t hear anything, but there were the police, ambulances…“, explains a local resident.I was walking my dog very early and yet I heard nothing. Everyone is a little scared“, engages another resident. “There’s some funny people lurking around here“.
“I saw him lying in front of my house”
We were also able to interview another witness: the one who discovered the victim lying in front of his home. “I was in Brussels during the day, I came back late. I get a call to tell me that someone fell in front of my house, I found him face down“says the man, who knew the victim.”I turned him around, tried CPR until the ambulance arrived. I tried to do my best, but it was over“.
“He was running from something“, explains a friend of the victim. “We were tracking him, he had men behind his back. I’ve known him for years, and I didn’t even recognize him… he was really badly messed up.“. The lady, anonymized, explains that the victim had a debt of… 150 euros. “It was 3 years ago, and now they’re coming back. We’re going to barricade ourselves at home, it never stops. What I saw is not human“.
An autopsy is underway to determine the exact cause of death. The two suspects also stole the victim’s phone, used as a bargaining chip for the debt.
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