Jan 01, 2024 at 10:51 PM Update: an hour ago
The police in Antwerp have arrested twelve people, including eight minors, suspected of looting a police van on New Year’s Eve. The Antwerp Public Prosecution Service (OM) reported this on Monday.
Two of the suspects, boys aged fifteen and sixteen, have been placed in a closed institution by the juvenile judge.
On Sunday evening, the suspects stormed a police van that was parked in Kiel, a district just south of the Antwerp city ring. “Mirrors were kicked off, a door was kicked in and two windows were smashed,” a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service told the news agency Belgian.
“In the vehicle, the perpetrators stole items such as bulletproof vests, batons, laptops, body cameras and a pair of handcuffs,” she continued. The police managed to recover some of the loot.
A total of 57 people were arrested in Antwerp during New Year’s Eve. Mayor of Antwerp Bart De Wever calls the large number of incidents “a bad tradition”.
Against the Flemish broadcaster VRT De Wever said that the reprehensible behavior “not only affected decent local residents, but was also specifically aimed at police officers, firefighters and healthcare providers who did everything they could to ensure that New Year’s Eve was safe and sound”.
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