Many residents of Charleroi pressed the orange Alert us button this Saturday evening. “Important police deployment in Marchienne-au-Pont. A roadblock is underway. Pumper truck, helicopter on site“, a witness reported to us.”Several blocked streets, hooded and armed police, helicopter“, described another to us. Several other people transmitted similar testimonies to us.
Contacted by us, the spokesperson for the Charleroi police confirmed the intervention. “This is an order service set up for the opening of a new biker club. Another biker group did not like it, so they came. It was necessary to set up an order service to complete the neighborhood and avoid the confrontation between the bikers“, David Quinaux told us.
The operation began this Saturday afternoon. According to the police spokesman, a few people were arrested on a preventive basis. They have since been released.
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