A 25-year-old man detained in a case of rebellion against the police managed to escape from a Brussels police station after breaking the toilet bowl in his cell, investigators said on Tuesday.
The events occurred during the night from Monday to Tuesday at the police station in the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek, a few hours after the arrest of this suspect in the Belgian capital at the request of the Courtrai prosecutor’s office, in the west of the country.
Taking advantage of the absence of video surveillance in his cell, because “the camera was defective”, the suspect “unhooked the toilet bowl from the wall” and escaped through “a hole the size of an A4 sheet”, a spokesman explained to AFP. for the police area, confirming press information.
Fools police surveillance
Being in a basement corridor, he probably went through a window to access the street, fooling the surveillance of the police officers on duty at the main door of the police station, according to the same source.
This man, already known to the Belgian justice for numerous crimes, and sentenced on several occasions, had been arrested for breaching the conditions of release.
According to the Courtrai public prosecutor’s office in West Flanders, he is currently awaiting trial in a case of rebellion against the police, which would lead to his being re-imprisoned.
Source: BFM TV
