2023-12-04 11:08:00
“For the second time in a month, our bike box was filled with paint,” laments an Internet user on X. The events took place in the Vanderkinderen district. A bicycle box was covered in pink paint. The bike, as we can see in the photos, is therefore trashed.
“After having been yellow, they are now pink,” laments the Internet user, who calls on parking.brussels (responsible for the bicycle boxes) and the local police.
23 cases since October
Contacts made, it turns out that this story is far from being an isolated incident. Car park. brussels has recorded 23 cases of vandalism once morest bicycle boxes since October in Forest and Uccle. “Certain boxes were targeted several times. This is truly malicious vandalism. People used syringes to spray the bikes with paint through the holes in the boxes,” explains the spokesperson for the institution, who calls on users to file a complaint with the police. However, the phenomenon appears to have diminished since the end of November.
Victims of theft and vandalism, the bicycle parking lots at Bourse and De Brouckère stations will be better secured
On the Gracq side, we say we are challenged by the facts, and are cautious regarding their interpretation. “It happens that boxes end up vandalized. Some are open, broken… But these are not always anti-cyclist demands,” notes the Brussels head of the association for the defense of cyclists.
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