Aalst In Aalst last night something for 19 hours in a car without licence plates appeared in the carnival parade in belgium at that time by the city of drew. The older man at the wheel collided allegedly with a carnavalswagen. Eyewitness Gerry Van Goethem saw how people could just ejection. In the suitcase were knives and a baseballknuppel found. The defendant was also under the influence of narcotics.
The driver behaved according to the police aggressive. Agents in citizen fingerings as the first, then knew agents of the team ORCO (capacity to provide support shall for Risky and Complex Operations) the man to overpower. The defendant would have a psychiatric history. To the police he declared that he “Aalst a lesson, wanted to learn”.
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by Gerry Van Goethem, a member of the feestcomité, saw it all before his eyes happen. “I was in the Zonnestraat to the procession to watch, and suddenly I saw a car at high speed out of the Maanstraat. A gray car managed to get between the concrete blocks to slalommen. He rammed the nadarhekken, with havoc as a result. I knew immediately: ‘This is wrong’. He came to the Zonnestraat broken in. That was empty, because there was just at that moment a gap between the two groups. That can sometimes happen in the procession. What a luck, because otherwise, he was, undoubtedly, run in to a group.”
“The people who are on the side stood, pulled their children away from the street and could just in time of the material,” continues Gerry. “We saw a man behind the wheel with his window open reed. He had a bat stuck in one hand. Some people, including myself, walked to the car. When that stopped, we managed the door pull open, and four men we have that guy out of his car again. Not simple: he was quite strong and resisted enormous. He stayed the whole time and cry and scream. With a dozen or so people we have him restrained. There were two agents running up and which could ultimately buoys – but that was only when there was a team with a reinforcement had arrived. He continued to be tooth and nail to oppose it. Can’t believe it, actually.”
