The facts occurred around 7:15 p.m. in the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek, in the Brussels-Nord station district.
Le Monde with AFP
A police officer died of his injuries after being attacked in the knife, Thursday, November 10, in the Brussels, said the Brussels prosecutor’s office. Around 10:30 p.m., the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office, competent in organized crime and terrorism, said the anti -terrorist justice had been seized of the investigation. The alleged author of the assault was injured during his arrest and is currently hospitalized.
The facts occurred around 7:15 p.m. in the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek, in the Brussels-Nord station district. For a motif that remains to be lightened, a man armed with a knife attacked a patrol of two police officers, bearing them. The latter then called reinforcements and an agent from another patrol used his firearm to “neutralize the aggressor”, according to the Belgian news agency Belga.
According to several media, the suspect would have been shot in the legs and abdomen. The two injured police officers were transported to hospital; One of the two agents, hit in the neck, did not survive.