Belgian youths throw manhole covers on vans, killing one

In Belgium, there have been two incidents in a brief time frame involving younger individuals who threw a pothole cowl from a viaduct onto a truck cab. Every week and a half in the past a truck driver died consequently; the highest of his truck’s windshield broke.

On the evening of Friday 10 to Saturday 11 Might, a gaggle of younger folks in Héron, within the Walloon area of Liège, reportedly tied a pothole cowl to a belt and threw it off a street bridge. A 50-year-old Romanian truck driver didn’t survive. His spouse, who was sitting subsequent to him, did it.

Final week, 5 suspects had been arrested, two of whom had been minors. Based on the Flemish broadcaster VRT they’re 18 and 17 years outdated and so they come from the Namur area.

The three adults are suspected of “malicious obstruction of visitors leading to loss of life,” mentioned the Namur public prosecutor’s workplace. The 2 youths had been handed over to the juvenile choose. Based on the general public prosecutor’s workplace, some suspects had used laughing gasoline.

At the moment it was introduced {that a} comparable incident had occurred earlier than. Based on Belgian media, a gaggle of younger folks had been working in the identical approach on Might 8, on a viaduct over the identical freeway. After which they focused a Romanian truck driver.

This driver escaped unhurt. He broken his truck. The general public prosecutor’s workplace in Namur assumes {that a} gap cowl on a rope was thrown from a bridge right here as properly. Two suspects have been arrested: an underage boy and an “grownup lady”, writes The usual price. It’s suspected that the lady is a “malicious visitors obstruction”.

Based on the Walloon newspaper The long run perhaps the suspects had been taking part in a sport the place they aimed to break passing vans with the pothole cowl.