Bruges In the Bruges assisenhof is the second day of his trial around the deadly stabbing of a 4.5 years ago on the Bruges Market. The best friend of a victim of Mikey Peeters (19), an emotional testimony about how the stabbing was experiencing. Steven Van Geel (26) showed the first signs of regret.
Lore Versyck (22) , the best friend of Mikey Peeters, at the end of the afternoon, her testimony about the night of the facts. The girl described how powerless she felt at the time of the stabbing. “Until then, it was still a fun evening. I was euphoric and happy,” she told him. “I remember that we are on the way from the Café du Théâtre to the Market that two men (Steven Van Geel and Suleyman Betelguiriev, ed.) met. They yelled something to me, but what exactly I don’t know anymore. Mikey spoke to them about it. I think he got it for me wanted to record.”
“Just ping-pong”
In the lane to the Market it came to a skirmish between Yellow and Mikey. According to Lore, there was mutual pushed and pulled. “It was like ping pong. On the Market threw out Of Yellow knife road. I took the knife from the ground. I thought nothing more could happen. Suleyman took the knife from my hands. Everything happened very fast after each other. Suleyman asked: “What is your name friend?” and I replied “Mikey”. He said that it had to stop or else he would cross. I am hysterical start shouting that they had to stop fighting. What should a man do differently? I have tried to Suleyman, but that had no meaning anymore.”
“Acted on autopilot”
The Chechen Belgian crossed Mikey quickly in the back. The young native of bruges would eventually die in the arms of his best friend. “Only now I the images see, I realize that it all happened very quickly. When everything seemed a half hour. That sting remained exactly. When Suleyman and Yellow were ran away, acted I on auto-pilot. I tried to get my jacket around Mikey to do, but the bleeding did not stop. He felt completely cold and looked no more like my best friend. He seemed no longer the person I knew. It was all very surreal.”
“I am a murderer called”
Lore, after the stabbing a lot about themselves. A lot of people blamed her to say that the knife had not been thrown away. “I am a murderer called”, sobbed she. “The people were bad on me than on the killer. Five years of my life, is thrown away. Only since July of last year, I figured that I could do anything to the facts. I must not be angry on myself.”
Steven Van Geel focused after the testimony of Lore to the girl. The volksjury saw suddenly a completely different Yellow than the one that Monday had seen. “I would like to say that I really, really like”, arc the Belgian head. “I’ve really not wanted and find it very much what you all have to experience. It is your fault that Mikey was murdered.”