A man hit by a pavement stone thrown at him in Rotterdam has been released from hospital

The 37-year-old who is this month heavy paving tile thrown at him in Rotterdam, discharged from hospital. His half-sister contacted the regional broadcaster Rijnmond. The man was asleep at the entrance to the Maritime Museum when he suffered a serious attack.

That happened early Tuesday morning, November 5th. The man was taken to hospital in critical condition. He lay one in a coma for more than a week and he underwent surgery on his face.

He has now been released from the hospital. The man receives care 24 hours a day, reports his half-sister Amy Boekhoudt. “He’s recovering from the surgery on his face.” Given the situation, things are going well: “He was already joking in the hospital.”

It was previously reported that he was a homeless man, but according to his half-sister this is different. The man usually lives in a group home, but at the beginning of November he decided to sleep on the street. “Because he didn’t want to bother people with his problems,” she said on a talk show this month Let’s go.

Two weeks ago he was in France a person arrested before the attack. A man, 32, was arrested after attacking a woman on a train at Toulon station. After he was arrested, the police decided that he looked a lot like the man wanted in Rotterdam.

He is also suspected of a similar incident in Lyon, in which a homeless man was killed by being attacked with a stone.