The hospital, having received the alleged murderer of a policeman in Brussels on Thursday a few hours before the attack, assured that the police had “never informed them” of the dangers of the man, who left the institute without being subjected to psychiatric expertise.
The clinic that welcomed the murderer of a policeman in Brussels was not informed of the man’s danger. While the circumstances of the tragedy are disputed in Belgium, the Saint-Luc university clinics, in a press release sent to AFP on Saturday, insisted the “recall that any patient who shows up in the emergency room is free to leave of their own accord unless they are part of ongoing police surveillance, which was not the case in the context of this hospitalization“.”No instructions have been given by the competent authorities“, adds the establishment.
The hospital did not inform him of the person’s danger
The suspect, Yassine M., a 32-year-old Belgian, a radicalized ex-convict on file with the counter-terrorism services, attacked two police officers in Brussels on Thursday evening with a knife, wounding one to death. He is silent presented in the morning in a police station in the Belgian capital asking to be “psychological support“according to the Brussels prosecutor’s office, and had been, on the advice of a magistrate, accompanied to the Saint-Luc hospital.
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The hospital says the man showed up at the emergency room around 11am Thursday, accompanied by three police officers,”for voluntary psychological assistance”. After “28 minutes“, was seen by a nurse, according to the establishment, which specifies that the police left the emergency room”at that moment without having never informed the emergency personnel of the danger of the person“.
Inability to psychiatric evaluation
The man was then placedin the waiting room to wait before his psychiatric treatment”plus Utwenty minutes later“, the nurse who came to pick him up found outThe “he left the waiting room of his own free will“. “The psychiatric evaluation could not therefore take place”emphasizes the hospital.
The attack, during which another policeman was injured, has raised questions and protests even within the government coalition led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, and has provoked the wrath of the police unions, who are calling for a demonstration in Brussels on November 28th.
The attacker, wounded by the fire of a patrol arriving as reinforcements, was hospitalized.
(updated with AFP)
